The Morning Rant: J.V. Edition

It is said the "sunlight is the best disinfectant." Clearly not at Duke, where a pompous ass of an economics professor has quite publicly proven her stupidity, parochialism, insularity, and ignorance of the proper function of academia.

“Anyone who is on the staff of The Chronicle is not permitted to take this class,” Hughes’ syllabus for her “Inside Hedge Funds” course reads. Students at the Chronicle, the student newspaper at Duke University, got ahold of the syllabus according to a report that was published on Monday,

“Audio recordings of this class are not permitted and students will be asked to keep the information shared by some of our guest speakers confidential,” the full quote reads. “Anyone who is on the staff of the Chronicle is not permitted to take this class. Please honor this in order that we can continue to get high quality visitors and information.”

Does professor Hughes really believe that some hedge fund manager is going to whisper the secrets of the financial universe to her and her class of undergraduates? Is her knowledge of the topic so profound that it must be zealously guarded from...uh...who is it being guarded from?

When I was 18 and a callow youth I used to be impressed by professors. I was disabused of that notion rather quickly, and in the intervening years nothing has happened to change my opinion of academics; that they are, in the main, arrogant, narcissistic asses whose primary goal is to impress children.

Duke's motto is "Eruditio et Religio,"...Learning and Religion.

Professor Hughes got the "religion" part right...the religion of academia.

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With no end in sight for America's gun epidemic, it may be time to consider a radical approach: seizing millions of weapons from law abiding citizens. My latest in @GlobeIdeas: https://t.co/i4hS6DOo8p

So we are to ignore the fact that homicides are on a long-term downtrend in spite of a huge increase in the number of guns owned by Americans? And just send the cops to random homes, break down the doors and confiscate whatever weapons they find? Sounds like a plan.

But let's look at the reality. A small number of gun owners will fight. And that means dead cops and dead gun owners. My guess is that the resulting carnage will result in a huge increase in gun homicides, but that's sort of the plan, isn't it?

Ya'all dont trash the place and dont pee with the seat down.... unlees your an ette.... mmmmkay.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 14, 2017 11:33 AM (8XRCm)

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"It's also important to note that the conditions themselves have been unfairly characterized," he added. "For example, a child who received behavioral counseling at age 10 would be forever banned from military service were it not for the ability to make a waiver request.

The same standard will be applied to revoke 2A rights for "Mental illness"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 14, 2017 11:34 AM (BoMuO)

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Did anyone here see the black kollege perfessor on Tucker last night? He's the darling of the NYT after he wrote an opinion piece where he warns his children of the dangers of having white friends.

He's kind of a modern day Martin Luther King. Or something.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 14, 2017 11:34 AM (PY9jH)

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Wait is that Hijab Barbie out without a m 3 male escorts? What's next Be-headed Barbie?

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Oh I'd be recording that class start to finish every day as a student. I'd enroll just so I could make recordings. Its super easy to do these days, audio recorders can be tiny. Its obvious she's spouting all kinds of hateful, stupid nonsense.

Any professor that does not want anyone to at any time record anything they say in class is someone who ought not be teaching. Its obvious they're saying stuff that any normal human being would find horrifying.

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One gets the sense that the left is de-evolving. The problem is, they're trying to take the rest of us down with them. Men, be men. Don't let these low-T a** hats convince you that your masculinity is toxic. Why does the left elevate the most dysfunctional cultures in the world while sabotaging the most functional? Don't be part of their suicide game.

2411 Did anyone here see the black kollege perfessor on Tucker last night? He's the darling of the NYT after he wrote an opinion piece where he warns his children of the dangers of having white friends.

He's kind of a modern day Martin Luther King. Or something.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 14, 2017 11:34 AM (PY9jH)

I have often wondered why people like him simply don't *leave* and make their way to the mythical African Motherland. Ghana has a Law Of Return willing to accept them IIRC.

That doll needs to have at least another doll included in the package. The male escort that follows her around when she leaves the house. You know, the one dressed in western jeans and polo shirt who talks for her and makes sure she doesn't speak to any males.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 14, 2017 11:36 AM (jErY5)

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Oh I'd be recording that class start to finish every day as a student. I'd enroll just so I could make recordings. Its super easy to do these days, audio recorders can be tiny. Its obvious she's spouting all kinds of hateful, stupid nonsense.

I recorded all of my med school lectures with a livescribe pen. The professors never knew.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 14, 2017 11:36 AM (BoMuO)

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Put Hijab Barbie into a burka would resolve some of the concerns some people have about body image. But would she have the freedom to take her burka off or would she get murdered by Jihad Ken?

Posted by: Northernlurker, the lurkingest lurker of the north. Still proudly lurking. at November 14, 2017 11:36 AM (nBr1j)

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Chris Plante was riffing on this Barbie a bit ago. He suggested they should also come out with Jihad Joe, who would come with 72 Barbies. Yes yes yes I know but I can't think of how else to say it.

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Oh, and Congress is dragging Sleepy Sessions through the mud right now hoping for some perjury...
Posted by: It's me donna
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I was listening to it on the way into work.. Conyers is a retard..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 14, 2017 11:41 AM (so+oy)

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With no end in sight for America's gun epidemic, it may be time to
consider a radical approach: seizing millions of weapons from law
abiding citizens.

put it up for a vote. If this is such a magnificent idea, put it up for a vote.

Posted by: Blue Hen at November 14, 2017 11:41 AM (326rv)

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55 I'm honestly glad the Left has taken the mask off and is now talking about confiscations openly.
Posted by: Maritime at November 14, 2017 11:40 AM (lKmt3)

On a serious note.
Does Ace want to sign or put an inked paw print on the cookbook for more money? And your nic and the rest of the team's nics would be worth it too.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2017 11:43 AM (hyuyC)

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Odd how the proggies never talk about seizing the guns of inner-city gangs.

Posted by: davidt at November 14, 2017 11:43 AM (cGz5Q)

75I have often wondered why people like him simply don't *leave* and make their way to the mythical African Motherland

Man, then they'd give up all the goodies in America. They know that the rest of the world basically sucks, especially Africa. They want all the good stuff of America without the work or the people that make it so.

But let's look at the reality. A small number of gun owners will fight.
And that means dead cops and dead gun owners. My guess is that the
resulting carnage will result in a huge increase in gun homicides, but
that's sort of the plan, isn't it?

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Iowntheworldreport has an article on the Moore Mall banning Story. Once again long on innuendo, short on fact.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2017 11:46 AM (8+Ozj)

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Salty, this cookbook isn't meant to be a money maker. We are hoping to
break even, and if there is anything beyond that, it goes to charity.

Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2017 11:45 AM (D7HgF) Well, I am definitely buying a few; one for me and for family members.

Posted by: IC at November 14, 2017 11:46 AM (a0IVu)

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Mattel's stock is already down, so much so that Hasbro is talking about buying out Mattel. But sure, you just keep on virtue signalling to people who aren't going to buy your toys. Because the different Barbie and Ken heights and figures, and man-bun Ken, were obviously huge crowd pleasers

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Anybody else tired of the passive aggressive crypto troll and his act?

Posted by: steevy at November 14, 2017 11:47 AM (LiyEm)

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I suspect the day they start gun confiscations is the day a lot of cops quit to find other work.

Posted by: Mr. Roy Peebles at November 14, 2017 11:47 AM (oVJmc)

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funny how it's too late to drag out corey feldmans' accused rapists but, this shit comes out 40 years after the fact? fucking media and politicians especially GOPe must be destroyed. sons and daughters of satan.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 14, 2017 11:47 AM (KP5rU)

111Then leaping from her Glam Convertible pulled out her Barbie Dream Assault Weapon and fired upon a herd of My Little Ponies.

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In her defense, she dId this after she found out that Jihadi Ken was cheating on her with that whole herd f Little Ponies. In public.

122They've grown so large they think they're indispensable. A lot of them aren't. It's pure inertia and brand recognition that keep them going. A toy company indispensable? Give me a break.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 14, 2017 *
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If Mattel falls, Hasbro can pick up the Barbie name and toolings. Get her together with GI Joe. You know we've all been imagining that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 14, 2017 11:48 AM (YWG/U)

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"Anybody else tired of the passive aggressive crypto troll and his act?"

How about the editorial staff of the Boston Globe break into my house and try seizing my guns. Much Hilarity would ensue. I'm sure Texas papers would get a good story out of it.

Posted by: An Observation at November 14, 2017 11:49 AM (K4dE9)

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"When I was 18 and a callow youth I used to be impressed by professors. I
was disabused of that notion rather quickly, and in the intervening
years nothing has happened to change my opinion of academics; that they
are, in the main, arrogant, narcissistic asses whose primary goal is to
impress children."

^^^THIS

Many moons ago I was trying to wrap up my bachelors degree in IT. Went to a local university where I was met with the Comp Sci department chair - who had a PhD. In psychology. She took the required courses so she could teach and assume her role in the IT curriculum. Me, having 10+ years in IT at that point smelled a rat right away.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 14, 2017 11:49 AM (jxbfJ)

134We are hoping to break even, and if there is anything beyond that, it goes to charity.The Endor Reforestation Project by any chance?

Posted by: andycanuck at November 14, 2017 11:49 AM (mJ8mX)

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That doll needs to have at least another doll included in the package. The male escort that follows her around when she leaves the house. You know, the one dressed in western jeans and polo shirt who talks for her and makes sure she doesn't speak to any males.
Posted by: Jen the original at November 14, 2017 11:36 AM (jErY5)

I saw a number of Burka clad women at a local park a few summers back. 90+ temp AND humidity wearing black heavy cloth sacks. BUT as you point out, all of the males were dressed in GQ fashions and metrosexual hair, etc.

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>>117 The problem with mandatory gun confiscation is not the few who will fight but the millions enslaved. Posted by: xnycpeasant at November 14, 2017 11:48 AM (BsGS1)

Reminds me of the bumpersticker: "Those who beat their guns into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

Posted by: Zod at November 14, 2017 11:50 AM (Bdeb0)

14575 I have often wondered why people like him simply don't *leave* and make their way to the mythical African Motherland

Man, then they'd give up all the goodies in America. They know that the rest of the world basically sucks, especially Africa. They want all the good stuff of America without the work or the people that make it so.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2017 11:43 AM (39g3+)

I know, I know. But i would so vote for a GOP candidate who told them to put their money where their mouths are. I know, not happening either.

146With no end in sight for America's gun epidemic, it may be time to consider a radical approach: seizing millions of weapons from law abiding citizens.

The operative phrase being "law abiding." Seize them from the criminals who shoot each other every night with illegally-acquired weapons, the ones who plump up our murder statistics. The criminals are easy to find; just go to your local ghetto and look for the gangbanger uniform. Seize their guns - if you've got the balls.

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Without going into what a badass I am, and how I'd start a militia if gun confiscation actually came about, what if I just said "no"?

First, if you do a buyback, even a mandatory buyback, I'm not showing up. I live in Texas, so my guns aren't registered anywhere. So you're not going to know.

Second, actually, I might show up. I'd bring the .22 I bought for $99 and request many times its actual value. Then I'd take that money and go buy more guns. Thanks!

Third, if you try confiscation and come to my house asking for my arsenal, I'm going to point at the Constitution hanging on the wall next to the door, say "no", and shut the door in your face. Are you willing to shoot me? Are you willing to shoot in front of my kids? Are you willing to do that to millions of Americans who don't agree with your views? That'll be a real hit.

Fourth, that situation actually won't happen. I am a commander in the National Guard, so I'd be among those who'd be sending to knock on those doors.

So, nope. What are you going to do about that, Scharfenberg?

Posted by: CPT11A at November 14, 2017 11:50 AM (gY9Ct)

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"In her defense, she dId this after she found out that Jihadi Ken was cheating on her with that whole herd f Little Ponies. In public."

Gunfreezone.net had the best opening paragraph for that story:

"In Berlin, there is the Goerlitzer Park. In the park there is a zoo. In the zoo there is a pony. In the pony is a Syrian man's penis."

Posted by: Rob Crawford at November 14, 2017 11:50 AM (PtwgA)

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Ironic, considering Mattel used to make wonderful toy guns, modeled on the real thing. In fact their Shootin' Shell pistols worked on the same principle as real guns: a cartridge, a bullet nose, and a firing cap. When the hammer fell, the gun made a sharp report (with even a tinge of neat-smelling smoke), and the plastic bullet zoomed out of the spring-loaded cartridge and put some kid's eye out. Remember those good old days, Horde?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 14, 2017 11:51 AM (YWG/U)

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Professor twat is simply engaging in Marketing 101 in an effect to sell her course.

152But if he stays in and wins, can the congress 'expel' him somehow? Then what happens

I think that takes a 2/3rds vote and I doubt they can get anything close to that. Its all just posturing, to claim virtue and out of fear of losing the women's vote.

But unless something a lot more severe comes out like 4 more girls all say he ravaged them in the dugout at the local ballpark then told them to put ice on it, I don't think it will cost any votes from women who might otherwise vote Republican.

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Fourth, that situation actually won't happen. I am a commander in the National Guard, so I'd be among those who'd be sending to knock on those doors.

So, nope. What are you going to do about that, Scharfenberg?
Posted by: CPT11A at November 14, 2017 11:50 AM (gY9Ct)

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The Money Quote. Gun Banners always forget this...

Posted by: Jackal at November 14, 2017 11:54 AM (Wpzi3)

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>>In theory. I believe the last time it happened was in the 1800s although Packwood might have been kicked out but he resigned the day after the Ethics Committee voted to sanction him. Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 11:49 AM (/tuJf)

The House sought to unseat Adam Clayton Powell; the Supreme Court found for Powell (there was nothing extra-constitutional in his behavior, so they could find no justification for denying the expressed will of the electorate etc.), and I think that case was considered when Harry Reid wanted to unseat (or prepare to unseat) someone, don't recall who. Anyway, "Powell v. McCormack (1969)" is the case.

Posted by: Zod at November 14, 2017 11:54 AM (Bdeb0)

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>With no end in sight for America's gun epidemic, it may be time to consider a radical approach: seizing millions of weapons from law abiding citizens.

Start your little plan in Boston. Let us know how that works out.

Posted by: Roy at November 14, 2017 11:54 AM (7n4KQ)

164"In Berlin, there is the Goerlitzer Park. In the park there is a
zoo. In the zoo there is a pony. In the pony is a Syrian man's penis."All for the want of a horseshoe nail. Or is that a different thing?

Posted by: andycanuck at November 14, 2017 11:55 AM (mJ8mX)

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Now I am not saying anyone here needs this, And I am not saying someone does not.
Posted by: Nevergiveup

my book was better.

How to kill your enemies and rape their women

Posted by: Zombie Genghis Khan at November 14, 2017 11:55 AM (FZYNt)

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And who are the lucky stiffs that draw the job of seizing millions of weapons from citizens? Because I know it won't be the loud mouths pushing for it.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at November 14, 2017 11:53 AM (lKyWE)

Nope, sure won't. And there will be bloodshed.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2017 11:55 AM (NWiLs)

167Anybody else tired of the passive aggressive crypto troll and his act?

Do you have any wisdom for us, or good stories besides getting the Humvee out of the ditch?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2017 11:55 AM (hyuyC)

169Are you willing to shoot me? Are you willing to shoot in front of my kids? Are you willing to do that to millions of Americans who don't agree with your views? That'll be a real hit.
Posted by: CPT11A at November 14, 2017 11:50 AM (gY9Ct)

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Ted Cruz is making some missteps still. But in this case, there's really no downside for him to condemn some guy in another state. If Moore really ends up being a true scumbag, he seems proper. If not, it doesn't cost him anything.

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Moore needs to produce a Statement of Facts on each of the two, most salacious claims and point out the inaccuracies, followed by some references to other politicians' stories of improprieties, like McCain and the lobbyist-lover, and demand some proof those aren't false as well, if all it takes is a rumor to make it so..

176I have often wondered why people like him simply don't *leave* and make their way to the mythical African Motherland. Ghana has a Law Of Return willing to accept them IIRC.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 14, 2017 11:35 AM (ujg0T)

This.

Time to repeat my program: offer $100,000 and a first-class ticket - one way - to Africa for anyone and everyone who wants it. The catch: they can never come back, not for any reason whatsoever.

The beauty of the program is that it serves as a pons asinorum: anyone stupid enough to think $100,000 is a lot of money to live on for 20-50 years is someone we don't want here anyway.

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175 Kid is heading to duke next year. Should be interesting.
Posted by: NCKate at November 14, 2017 11:56 AM (uMNKJ)

Does he play lacrosse?

Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2017 11:56 AM (NWiLs)

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IC, that's wonderful- but be sure said family members appreciate the, um, unique qualities (and language) of the Horde!

Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2017 11:50 AM (D7HgF) heh...only for the saltier members of my family. I have a nephew currently serving in Afghanistan who lurks here occasionally and he wants one too mainly for laughs I think.

Posted by: IC at November 14, 2017 11:57 AM (a0IVu)

179Are you willing to shoot me? Are you willing to shoot in front of my kids? Are you willing to do that to millions of Americans who don't agree with your views?

My guess is that they figure once a few troublemakers are dealt with, everyone will just cave and go along.

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183 With no end in sight for America's fake news epidemic, it may be time to
consider a radical approach: the jailing of law
abiding journalists.
Posted by: davidt at November 14, 2017 11:58 AM (cGz5Q)

both of them?

Posted by: Roy at November 14, 2017 11:58 AM (7n4KQ)

189HEY KIDS! Hijab Barbie is now talking Hijab Barbie. Just pull the string and hear what she says.

Kill the infidels!
Death to America!
Kill the Crusaders!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 14, 2017 11:58 AM (493sH)

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I have often wondered why people like him simply don't *leave* and make
their way to the mythical African Motherland. Ghana has a Law Of Return
willing to accept them IIRC.=====

Always laugh about that. How much $$$ must they front to even be considered for 'repatriation'. Conversation stopper in my neighborhood is okay, make our immigration laws like Canada and Mexico.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 14, 2017 11:58 AM (MIKMs)

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I suspect the day they start gun confiscations is the day a lot of cops quit to find other work.
Posted by: Mr. Roy Peebles at November 14, 2017 11:47 AM

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>With no end in sight for America's gun epidemic, it may be time to
consider a radical approach: seizing millions of weapons from law
abiding citizens.

Start your little plan in Boston. Let us know how that works out.

Posted by: Roy at November 14, 2017 11:54 AM (7n4KQ)

In Boston, actually 2/3 of Mass. -well the eastern 2/3 -- will work just fine. Half the "pro gun" types in that part of the state think a shotgun, a revolver and a bolt action .243 hunting rifle is all anyone should ever need -- As told to me by a Masshole coworker.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 14, 2017 12:01 PM (jxbfJ)

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Over at Insty, a story with this lead: "Hillary Clinton PERSONALLY Overturned Visa Ban for Islamist Figure Now Accused of Rape."

Guy in question is Tariq Ramadan, grandson (I believe) of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and lately stinking up the halls where Tolkien once taught.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at November 14, 2017 12:01 PM (PtwgA)

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I would like to rise up in defense of my alma mater, Duke University...but I can't. I wish I could say actions like the one taken by this professor are one off acts, but they are not. I'd like to defend Eruditio et Religio, and speak of the long, deep connection to the Methodist church and to a school that maintains an understanding of the Judeo-Christian principals that have led humanity out of the barbarism exemplified by unconstrained moral teachings, but it simply no longer exists. I didn't leave the principals to which my school was ostensibly founded upon behind, my school left those principals - and me - behind.

Supposedly Prince Talal was in LV the night Paddock was taken down. Some say he was gambling in a nearby casino and video shows him being walked out by his armed body guards when shooting starts next door. (I saw purported video on Youtube but I couldn't recognize it as Talal, just 5 guys with long guns and a middle eastern looking civilian walking through a casino.)

Notice a month later Talal is under arrest in SA.

There could be more going on with LV than just Paddock.

Also, the media is too quiet about it.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2017 12:01 PM (Q2X+l)

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One of my undergrad majors was economics, at Duke. I'm betting that she doesn't want the lefties at the Chrony to bash the hedgefund guys, not the reverse.

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In Boston, actually 2/3 of Mass. -well the eastern 2/3 -- will work just fine. Half the "pro gun" types in that part of the state think a shotgun, a revolver and a bolt action .243 hunting rifle is all anyone should ever need -- As told to me by a Masshole coworker.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 14, 2017 12:01 PM (jxbfJ)

217Not when the place is flooded with people with $100,000 in their hot little hands.

Plus, how long before bruthas in the motherland are queuing up at the airport to "greet" the new arrivals with all that lovely cash?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 14, 2017 12:00 PM (YqDXo)

Well, we could spread them around--some to Liberia, some to Sierra Leone, Some to Ghana, Some to Nigeria, and so on.

(I am assuming Anglophone Africa, they aren't going to learn French or Portuguese, that's for sure)

Mitch was in cahoots with the WaPo outing of Moore. Even Chuck Todd picked up on this, as allies of Mitch decried Moore within the first hour of the WaPo story. Mitch is doing this as his response to Bannon's declaration of war on Mitch and the GOPe Senate.

I expect no more women to come forth, and little new facts to come out. We may find a money trail but I'd expect that it's been deeply buried. So the story will just hang.

Moore won't drop out -- he's ornery -- and he'll probably win the election. Mitch can't not seat him (so sayeth SCOTUS), but he can press a vote to expel him with the support of the Ds and the GOPe in the Senate.

If Mitch does so he'll clearly be defying the electoral will of the voters of Alabama. A point Bannon will hit with salvo after salvo.

The bloodiest fights are often internecine. Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 14, 2017 12:04 PM (cAXIk)

225208 Bannon is hinting that he might dig up some 40 year oldf stories on McConnell
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at November 14, 2017 12:01 PM (hMwEB)

Thing is, I think the average American gun owner is of a different breed. Less of a "cower in fear when the Chekist paddy wagon drives up at 2am" and more of a "open fire on said Chekist paddy wagon, slit the throats of the survivors, scalp the bodies, and torch anything left over" breed.

Posted by: Jackal at November 14, 2017 12:04 PM (Wpzi3)

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My point was, he seems happy to steal from law abiding owners, but I bet that he'd hate the concept of stop and frisk.
Posted by: Winona at November 14, 2017 12:04 PM (326rv)

I'm sure you would too, given your history of shoplifting.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2017 12:04 PM (NWiLs)

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Jackal, that's the positive to having the military on our side. Liberals start to talk about how the generals are getting more and more liberal. That doesn't matter. The guys at the bottom, the vast majority of service members, and the most well-armed, are always going to be people of the right. They are not going to confiscate guns, EVER, and officers who value their own lives would be wise to remember that, should some goofy unconstitutional order ever come rolling down the pipe.

230With no end in sight for America's gun epidemic, it may be time to consider a radical approach: seizing millions of weapons from law abiding citizens.

And people wonder why I don't buy guns at gun stores anymore.

Posted by: Jean at November 14, 2017 12:05 PM (9TU00)

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I can see a line of My Little Goats as accessories to Hijab Barbie and Jihad Ken.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 14, 2017 12:05 PM (PY9jH)

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Over at Insty, a story with this lead: "Hillary Clinton PERSONALLY Overturned Visa Ban for Islamist Figure Now Accused of Rape."

Guy in question is Tariq Ramadan, grandson (I believe) of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and lately stinking up the halls where Tolkien once taught.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at November 14, 2017 12:01 PM (PtwgA)

People say Hillary hates men. I think she does, but hates women even more. Power is her one love. We would be flooded with muslims right now if she had won.

No, no. We don't send them anywhere. They get to choose where they go, if the country will accept them. When these useless troublemakers start showing up in the motherland and working their magic, pretty soon the host countries will refuse to take any more of them.

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i said yesterday that i'd not be surprised there is a Thai out there who might still have Mitchie's name in 'her' purse

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at November 14, 2017 12:06 PM (nz9+r)

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Thing is, I think the average American gun owner is of a different breed. Less of a "cower in fear when the Chekist paddy wagon drives up at 2am" and more of a "open fire on said Chekist paddy wagon, slit the throats of the survivors, scalp the bodies, and torch anything left over" breed.
Posted by: Jackal

The powers that be in Boston would love that. Gun grabbing mayor, gun grabbing police commissioner. Of course, forget about stop and frisk though. That would be racissss.

Posted by: tu3031 at November 14, 2017 12:06 PM (O5Q3r)

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I do not understand this automatic beliefe in these womans fantastical accounts.

We have two competing propositons, one propostion is that 40 years ago Roy Moore was an out of control sexual predator who simply stopped being a predator shortly after these supposed incidents occurred and that his politcial opponents of which he had many on both sides were not able to dig this up for some reason during the past 40 years until now after the primary when it is too late to replace him on the ballot.

Barring some compelling exculpatory evidence i say this entire thing is an op and total bullshit akin to what was tried against Trump.

Thing is, I think the average American gun owner is of a different
breed. Less of a "cower in fear when the Chekist paddy wagon drives up
at 2am" and more of a "open fire on said Chekist paddy wagon, slit the
throats of the survivors, scalp the bodies, and torch anything left
over" breed.

That was Solzenhitsyn's point-- there's a lot more boots on our side than on theirs.

Posted by: Mr. Roy Peebles at November 14, 2017 12:09 PM (oVJmc)

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:::somewhere deep in the bowels of the NSA McMaster is eating a Baconator and chuckling softly to himself:::

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I don't care who jumps on the bandwagon, Roy may have liked to talk up hot young things, but so f-ing what? A million old coots said things to me when I was that age, I never thought anything past "old coot." Also, I still am annoyed that some guy asking you out or saying you're beautiful, or even patting your ass is 'scarring.' That's crap (as long as it isn't a relative.) Just stop the 'trauma' narrative. That's just bullshit.

Posted by: dagny at November 14, 2017 12:09 PM (eO5CB)

253No, no. We don't send them anywhere. They get to choose where they go, if the country will accept them. When these useless troublemakers start showing up in the motherland and working their magic, pretty soon the host countries will refuse to take any more of them.

254Start your little plan in Boston Dorchester and Roxbury. Let us know how that works out.

Posted by: Armando, MA Native at November 14, 2017 12:09 PM (CoqFx)

255I'll be impressed by Mattel's courage when they make the prophet mohammad doll.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at November 14, 2017 12:07 PM (aVYsC)

With a nine y.o. "bride" accessory. Which brings to mind, the MFM and the left are always telling us how awesome Islam is. Muzzies believe that having underage brides (waaaay underage) is totes cool. Why no outcry against them?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 14, 2017 12:09 PM (PY9jH)

256
"When I was 18 and a callow youth I used to be impressed by professors. I was disabused of that notion rather quickly, ..."

At my college, all the engineering profs were required to do regular sabbaticals working in industry. Everyone of them were also working as consultants. They knew their stuff and what the trends/challenges were in the industries..

Posted by: Mahmood al-Fooktardi - Islam means Peace, as in I will peacefully blow you to pieces at November 14, 2017 12:10 PM (YB89a)

260
Most cops live in the local communities with their families. Unless their families are protected I can't see many of them going along with a confiscation effort.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 14, 2017 12:11 PM (r9UYA)

261
229 Jackal, that's the positive to having the military on our side. Liberals start to talk about how the generals are getting more and more liberal. That doesn't matter. The guys at the bottom, the vast majority of service members, and the most well-armed, are always going to be people of the right. They are not going to confiscate guns, EVER, and officers who value their own lives would be wise to remember that, should some goofy unconstitutional order ever come rolling down the pipe.
Posted by: CPT11A at November 14, 2017 12:05 PM (gY9Ct)

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I'd personally rather have a platoon of grunts and a few grizzled noncoms to keep em from getting too rowdy than a whole division of soft handed desk jockeys on my side any day. Just this civvy's opinion.

I have been wondering about this story (lack of) lately. As for the media, if it is not about some propaganda to defeat the right, impeach Trump, and get the SJWs/Dems/Marxists into the White House, they don't seem interested. LV mattered only b/c of gun control. I don't think theyndo real journalism anymore, and truth is an abstract concept for them.

270 "Confiscate"? Nope. THAT would be my hill. It would be shared by many.

And I will say no more.

Posted by: irongrampa at November 14, 2017 12:12 PM (S/hVx)

271
The US has faced countless threats and challenges since its founding and overcome all of them I don't think that will be the case with progressive PC SJW mindset. I swear the country will not survive this mass idiocy.

280
On Hijab Barbie: when we lived in Saudi, they already had abayas and veils for barbie, and thobes and ghutras for Ken. You could buy Barbie sized Diwa tents as her "dream house." Saudis who traveled to the West would buy all things Barbie for their daughters, and then robe them up when they got back.

Frankly, I am surprised it's taken this long for Hijab Barbie to make it to mainstream.

We got my daughter the tent, and she promptly made it a desert command post for her army of beanie babies that were bent on world domination.

Posted by: moki at November 14, 2017 12:15 PM (V+V48)

281
Duke is private, they can be as crazy as they want. Alum are already not giving. It will take a long time for them to blow through the TOBACCO money that started the university.

Posted by: George at November 14, 2017 12:15 PM (tO9MX)

282
When I read Elie Wiesel's Night a first hand account of the holocaust, I couldn't get past their acquiescence in being loaded onto train cars. Americans wouldn't do that. Not, the real version.

How about we round up liberals and force them to intellectually defend their ideas with facts? Winner take all.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 14, 2017 12:15 PM (VpIIl)

284How about a Penal Colony idea, where we compensate the host country for taking them off our hands?

Posted by: Curmudgeon

Part of the idea is to get African countries to reject them. They feel rejected here - and they are, because the gangbangers contribute nothing and cause a lot of problems. They attribute their rejection to racism, but when people just like them (actually even darker, for the most part) ALSO reject them, because of their behavior, they may just have a teachable moment.

285
As much of a waste of time that the Senate is, the House should be thrown out and the doors locked

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 14, 2017 12:16 PM (5y11N)

286
Well, I don't believe I am arrogant or narcissistic, but I have been called an ass from time to time...and I probably deserved that...and usually from Mrs D. but never by my students.

I teach.

I pass knowledge from the text and from life experiences to my students. I think that it works rather well too.

The fun part is I'm in the Business School and it is swamped this year by students seeking to transfer from other disciplines into something where they just might be able to make a living. Business, as they say, is booming.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 14, 2017 12:17 PM (0tfLf)

287
I'm just waiting for the sexual Harassment barbie complete with The Gloria Allred doll

Posted by: It's me donna at November 14, 2017 12:17 PM (O2RFr)

288
Sessions has more patience that me..I'd have told that piss ant to go fuck himself

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 14, 2017 12:17 PM (5y11N)

289
The Duke endowment is huge. Regardless, this may be an effort to stop the lefties at the Chronical from bashing speakers and amassing protests, not a left wing nutball anti-free speech thing.

Posted by: dagny at November 14, 2017 12:17 PM (eO5CB)

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282 When I read Elie Wiesel's Night a first hand account of the holocaust, I couldn't get past their acquiescence in being loaded onto train cars. Americans wouldn't do that. Not, the real version.
Posted by: dagny at November 14, 2017 12:15 PM (eO5CB)

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Agreed. The Warsaw Uprising is more our style.

Posted by: Jackal at November 14, 2017 12:17 PM (Wpzi3)

291
With no end in sight of America's STD crisis, it may be time to consider a radical approach: confiscation of Americans' genitals.

Posted by: Wait, um, that's not what I mean at November 14, 2017 12:17 PM (QCyzD)

292
No, no. We don't send them anywhere. They get to choose where they go, if the country will accept them. When these useless troublemakers start showing up in the motherland and working their magic, pretty soon the host countries will refuse to take any more of them.

How about a Penal Colony idea, where we compensate the host country for taking them off our hands?

(Note I have ruled out the West Indies--the islands are too small, too lovely for scuba diving and too close to the USA).
Posted by: Curmudgeon

Just offer $1500 cash, immunity to any pending IRS actions, and a 1lb of sweet Kentucky or Hawaiian marijuana to any US citizen who surrenders their passport at one of our foreign consulates. (Other than Canada or Northern Mexico - so they cant walk home.)

Posted by: Jean at November 14, 2017 12:17 PM (9TU00)

293
Everytime I refresh to read new comments I have to see that acid dropping chimp. That thing rattles my nervous system. I don't know why. I would love the kinder, gentler macaque from yesterday. If it weren't for having to see the pic every time I refresh I wouldn't care so much.

It's my problem, I know. I can solve it by staying off thread & doing work IRL. Now see, that's the way to do it.

How about we round up liberals and force them to intellectually defend their ideas with facts? Winner take all.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 14, 2017 12:15 PM (VpIIl)

And when their argument is over after 5 minutes, then what?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 14, 2017 12:18 PM (jxbfJ)

295Moore won't drop out -- he's ornery -- and he'll probably win the election. Mitch can't not seat him (so sayeth SCOTUS), but he can press a vote to expel him with the support of the Ds and the GOPe in the Senate.

If Mitch does so he'll clearly be defying the electoral will of the voters of Alabama. A point Bannon will hit with salvo after salvo.

The bloodiest fights are often internecine. Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 14, 2017 12:04 PM (cAXIk)

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Re: expulsion - is this as in an impeachment? Looking in wikipedia, it seems murky as to whether impeachment is applicable to congressmen.

But it would be interesting to see McConnell try this. He'd basically be stating "No, this is not a democracy. We decide who your 'representatives' will be. We were just kidding when we allowed you to hold an election, Alabama. LOL".

I think that might be the last straw.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 14, 2017 12:18 PM (/qEW2)

296
When I read Elie Wiesel's Night a first hand account of the holocaust, I couldn't get past their acquiescence in being loaded onto train cars. Americans wouldn't do that. Not, the real version.
Posted by: dagny at November 14, 2017 12:15 PM (eO5CB)

there was no acquiescence; if you had a barrel of a guy at your head and your children's lives were at steak you'd be the first in line

Well, they couldn't find any linkage to conservative white males, so they lost interest.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2017 12:18 PM (oPNmq)

298
At the end of the questioning Rep. Jordan asked Sessions if he would appoint a special counsel to investigate this deviant activity by the FBI and DNC.
Sessions told him he would not appoint a special counsel. -GP

300
280 On Hijab Barbie: when we lived in Saudi, they already had abayas and veils for barbie, and thobes and ghutras for Ken. You could buy Barbie sized Diwa tents as her "dream house." Saudis who traveled to the West would buy all things Barbie for their daughters, and then robe them up when they got back.

Frankly, I am surprised it's taken this long for Hijab Barbie to make it to mainstream.

We got my daughter the tent, and she promptly made it a desert command post for her army of beanie babies that were bent on world domination.
Posted by: moki at November 14, 2017 12:15 PM (V+V4

302Just offer $1500 cash, immunity to any pending IRS actions, and a 1lb of sweet Kentucky or Hawaiian marijuana to any US citizen who surrenders their passport at one of our foreign consulates. (Other than Canada or Northern Mexico - so they cant walk home.)
Posted by: Jean at November 14, 2017 12:17 PM (9TU00)

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>>At the end of the questioning Rep. Jordan asked Sessions if he would appoint a special counsel to investigate this deviant activity by the FBI and DNC.
Sessions told him he would not appoint a special counsel. -GP

How about we round up liberals and force them to intellectually defend their ideas with facts? Winner take all.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 14, 2017 12:15 PM

I'd rather have all Liberals move to the urban centers. Most of them are there anyway. Build The Wall around the cities. Now ban all guns from these cities as well. Sit back and watch the liberal utopia flourish.
Dibs on the popcorn vendor franchise.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 14, 2017 12:20 PM (0tfLf)

309
We got my daughter the tent, and she promptly made it a desert command post for her army of beanie babies that were bent on world domination.

Deplorable Jay, do you REALLY a group of people with the intellectual capacity of a freeze dried peanut to comprehend a teachable moment?

That is incurable optimism.

Posted by: irongrampa at November 14, 2017 12:20 PM (S/hVx)

312
I've been trying to "confiscate" my genitals since I was 12. I keep pulling, but they refuse to surrender.

Posted by: Harry Palms at November 14, 2017 12:21 PM (YB89a)

313
there was no acquiescence; if you had a barrel of a guy at your head and your children's lives were at steak you'd be the first in line

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2017 12:18 PM (QC/4S)

Not his account. You might want to re-read.
Posted by: dagny at November 14, 2017 12:20 PM (eO5CB)

I am familiar with his work. And it is the scariest
book I ever read. Perhaps you need to re-read it.

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2017 12:21 PM (QC/4S)

314
I think that might be the last straw.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear

Without Moore's vote, would the Turtle be majority leader?

Posted by: Jean at November 14, 2017 12:21 PM (9TU00)

315
CBD,
Sorry to hear about your experience in higher ed with your professors. However, as someone who was a consumer and then currently as a prof, your experience is not universal. If I cared to, I could go on and on about the students, their morals, and their behavior.

Just like other people, professors vary in their approaches, their humanity, their wisdom, and their skills.

There is a reason that most of the really bad behavior and poor judgment in academia (apart from classroom rules) comes from the adjunct/temporary pool just as some contractors tend to be the one to misbehave in the military/national security field. They were screened out by somebody for full time status but for temps, the need is just to be there as a warm body.

Most of the professors are reluctant to allow recordings for several reasons--it is easy to take out of context, some organized campus groups such as frats and sororities distribute them among the members to avoid class, and it can involve violations of intellectual property which is all the professor has (same thing as bootlegging a musician). It also leads to tuning out by some students.

I allow audio recording in my classroom, probably against my better judgment, because I give essay tests that require students to problem solve and I change these every semester. I would not allow and do not allow video as it creates privacy issues as classrooms are not really public spaces--imagine if you were a student who asked a dumb question in class and it was distributed via social media. Audio would be bad enough but video would be permanent.

Anyone who showed up with Google glasses would be shown the door. Videoing people surreptitiously is generally a bad idea in a class period. To hide doing it also distracts the student from active participation in the classroom.

If you choose to do so, you can minimize your exposure to the hacks in academia just like in real life. It requires research on the student's part and discussions with other students. Ask senior students in the program--most will spill their guts for beer and pizza and dish on profs-good and bad Professors will vary in their approaches and purposes in the classroom and a bit of research into a professor can yield quite a bit of useful information about what your classroom experience is likely to be.

Some profs like acolytes, some play devil's advocate, some play the authoritarian, some play the sage on the stage, some play the fool, some like to buddy up with students, some view students as distractions from their research, a few are sociopaths, and some view their job as to cull out the weak and unworthy or the "bad thinkers". You find the same types teaching in your local middle and high schools as well.

Most of us in academia represent a mix of the above roles and a few are probably more pure in type. Nevertheless, I find little resemblance in my experiences as a student at a number of universities to what you present above.

In my humble experience, the worst experiences as a student personally were generally with those who came from elite school backgrounds who felt diminished by teaching at a not so elite school and lack any experiences outside of academia. Ironically, some of the leading lights in the profession at many of those schools were some of the most kind, thoughtful, and helpful within the profession regardless of their personal ideologies. To them, the ideas and truth are what matter, not so much the status climbing virtue signalling.

Posted by: whig at November 14, 2017 12:21 PM (s8rl2)

316
***at the neighborhood Jamba Juice, Steve Bannon is arguing furiously with the teen over whether he can add Doritos to his Smoothie***

317
"282
When I read Elie Wiesel's Night a first hand account of the
holocaust, I couldn't get past their acquiescence in being loaded onto
train cars. Americans wouldn't do that. Not, the real version.

Posted by: dagny at November 14, 2017 12:15 PM (eO5CB)"After the 1938 German Weapons Act and then after Kristillnacht the regulations passed forbidding Jews from owning any weapons made the despicable process of rounding people up easier.The asshole writing the linked article above is no better than any Nazi.

320
Please show us on the Shero doll where David Harfenberg touched you.

Posted by: Inspector Gadget at November 14, 2017 12:22 PM (vtcmf)

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296 When I read Elie Wiesel's Night a first hand account of the holocaust, I couldn't get past their acquiescence in being loaded onto train cars. Americans wouldn't do that. Not, the real version.
Posted by: dagny at November 14, 2017 12:15 PM (eO5CB)

there was no acquiescence; if you had a barrel of a guy at your head and your children's lives were at steak you'd be the first in line
Posted by: runner at November 14, 2017 12:18 PM (QC/4S)

This. Also, early on in 39-40, the men were most often separated from the women and children, and either sent to work details in Germany, or shot right there. The women thought they had a chance to save their children by aquiescing. It was later that everyone was herded into the cars, but by this time, they had been starved and riddled with disease for so long that they were too weak to do anything. The Ghetto uprising was a last valiant effort as a group. The few that survived that went to the forests to join Resistance groups. But there weren't many left.

Posted by: moki at November 14, 2017 12:24 PM (V+V48)

322
Sorry Hijab Barbie will not be available this Christmas. It seems she needs to have some plastic surgery from a trip to London. It seems after the wind uncovered her hair, her second cousin (thrice removed) was forced to throw acid in her face for dishonouring the family. Allah be praised.

325But it would be interesting to see McConnell try this. He'd
basically be stating "No, this is not a democracy. We decide who your
'representatives' will be. We were just kidding when we allowed you to
hold an election, Alabama. LOL".
I think that might be the last straw.=====

Disenfranchising an entire state.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 14, 2017 12:25 PM (MIKMs)

326
Imagine if Roman Catholicism required all women to wear a nun's habit - I'm certain the left would screech the same defenses as they do to the moslem burka and hijab. No derision would be poked at it from the left nor would they claim that the habit crushes the female spirit and sense of freedom/ equality. The left would celebrate the habit as "empowering". Right?

Posted by: MSTisdale at November 14, 2017 12:25 PM (xHVD5)

327
Or maybe the Boston Globe guy is just an immature idiot that thinks like a child?

328
The lowland scots who fought the Romans and then the anglo-saxons for hundreds upon hundreds of years had a big contingent sent to colonize Ulster, where they fought the Irish. A lot came here, skirted around the already established Germans who were taking up space around philadelphia and west/south, and headed inland. These Scots-Irish are a prickly bunch, represent most of our war heros, and have a natural hatred of goverment. They couldn't even manage a religion with many 'requirements.' As much as I don't like Jim Webb, his book "born fighting" is pretty good up to a point.

Posted by: dagny at November 14, 2017 12:25 PM (eO5CB)

329
"The hatred of Western culture is so deeply seated in the progressive mind that they are willing to destroy themselves in service of the larger goal of the destruction of the West. Amazing.
Posted by: CBD "

Not "amazing" - "completely expected".

This. Is. Leftism.

Due respect, we need to stop being "amazed" at each click of the ratcheting Leftist machine and start fighting back.

Leftism is an existential threat to Americanism and true Americans.

Posted by: DrDean at November 14, 2017 12:26 PM (KiUxL)

330
"Looking in wikipedia, it seems murky as to whether impeachment is applicable to congressmen."

I don't see many new facts coming out either way.

If Mitch isn't prepared to impeach Moore with the requisite 2/3rds per the Constiution, Moore will get seated and stay.

I don't see Moore quitting, and the odds are he'll win the election. Because AL is way outside the bubble.

Prince Talal, supposedly was the source of a lot of dirty political money. "donating" to CGI and Presidential Libraries etc etc. He's got his fingers in the media as well.

Its an amazing story and its like it doesn't exist. So much stray voltage right now.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2017 12:27 PM (sElJn)

338
Why is Sessions even appearing before the House? Holder used to blow them off all the time. Stupid Republicans.

Posted by: rammajamma at November 14, 2017 12:27 PM (AjNMO)

339305 >>At the end of the questioning Rep. Jordan asked Sessions if he would appoint a special counsel to investigate this deviant activity by the FBI and DNC.
Sessions told him he would not appoint a special counsel. -GP

He said nothing of the kind.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 12:20 PM (/tuJf)

If you took a brief moment out from licking establishment scrote and listened to the video, that is exactly what he said.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 14, 2017 12:27 PM (r9UYA)

340>But it would be interesting to see McConnell try this. He'd basically be stating "No, this is not a democracy. We decide who your 'representatives' will be. We were just kidding when we allowed you to hold an election, Alabama. LOL".

That would require balls. If he had any, he would be doing what he is supposed to, and not pissing off conservatives.

Again, not his account. His account shows more of a disbelief of reports coming back and a belief that they were better off agreeing. I'm not saying that there wasn't resistance, but Weisel's account isn't of that.

347
But it would be interesting to see McConnell try this. He'd
basically be stating "No, this is not a democracy. We decide who your
'representatives' will be. We were just kidding when we allowed you to
hold an election, Alabama. LOL".
I think that might be the last straw.
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Disenfranchising an entire state.

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Which is why the UniParty paid Fusion GPS to destroy Moore publicly. Because if they successfully demonize him, then the public will have been saved by the wise old republican hand Mitch. See how that works?

Man do I want to see the bank records of Fusion GPS.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2017 12:30 PM (SxXq8)

348
Or maybe the Boston Globe guy is just an immature idiot that thinks like a child?

Ya think?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 12:26 PM (/tuJf)

Sometimes I do, but I immediately self-medicate with beer as an antidote.

352
I'm always first in line when the barrel of a guy is pointed at my head!

Posted by: Shep at November 14, 2017 12:30 PM (YB89a)

353
When I read Elie Wiesel's Night a first hand account of the holocaust, I couldn't get past their acquiescence in being loaded onto train cars. Americans wouldn't do that. Not, the real version.
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I dont think so.

Note how many fall for "reasonable gun control. "
And all the other camel noses of fascism.

Because people want to believe the lie.

They don't want the truth that the government, their fellow countrymen want them dead.

That's a hard pill to swallow, one you can't come back from.

So it's, "this is reasonable, they don't mean to kill me, etc." The lie is easier.

How about we round up liberals and force them to intellectually defend their ideas with facts? Winner take all.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 14, 2017 12:15 PM

I'd rather have all Liberals move to the urban centers. Most of
them are there anyway. Build The Wall around the cities. Now ban all
guns from these cities as well. Sit back and watch the liberal utopia
flourish.

Dibs on the popcorn vendor franchise.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 14, 2017 12:20 PM (0tfLf)

So how high would the wall be? Would it be water tight? Most of the urban centers are near bodies of water, so once the wall is built - can we make them oversized swimming pools? Would solve quite a few problems.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 14, 2017 12:30 PM (jxbfJ)

355
And while all this bullshit is happening with Moore, France (and soon us and the UK) is considering lowering the age of consent to 13 to accommodate Muslim rapists and child marriage. Fuck yourself McConnell and Ryan

Posted by: CN at November 14, 2017 12:31 PM (5gaNQ)

356
Someone may have already said this, but in re confiscation of firearms:

Dear Comrade Scharfenberg:

There are over 300 million legally-owned guns in this country, and many billions of rounds of legally-owned ammunition in this country; if we were the problem, you'd fucking well know it.

357
>>If you took a brief moment out from licking establishment scrote and listened to the video, that is exactly what he said.

Perhaps if you took a half second from your inane Sessions bashing and actually listened to the entire hearing as I have been you would actually know what he said.

I realize you think you're quite witty with the ZZZZZZ thing but the facts are not in your favor.

What Sessions said was essentially that he is well aware of the issue but is not able to comment on the status of investigations or potential investigations. He has this quaint habit of actually following the law.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 12:31 PM (/tuJf)

358
Posted by: dagny at November 14, 2017 12:15 PM (eO5CB)"After the 1938 German Weapons Act and then after Kristillnacht the regulations passed forbidding Jews from owning any weapons made the despicable process of rounding people up easier.The asshole writing the linked article above is no better than any Nazi.

361
He seems to think it makes him unmanly.
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Ha ha, because real men don't drink smoothies and only care about what happens within Ten miles of their home, when they aren't too busy bowling.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2017 12:32 PM (+0k00)

362
>>Problem? No problem. If my lectures don't make it for you, then don't show up. Not interested? Tune out. Be my guest. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 14, 2017 12:26 PM (YqDXo)

Sounds reasonable. You're paying for a seat in the class. If you choose not to occupy it, it's your dime. But if you don't occupy it, and you don't find another way of ensuring that you can ace the final, you paid for nada.

(Attendance at classes in TrumpCamp will be mandatory, however, and slackers will be shot).

Posted by: Zod at November 14, 2017 12:32 PM (Bdeb0)

363
Has anyone on the left used the shitty argument that it took a similar fight to make Barbie black? Cuz if they haven't it's coming.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The calm before the storm at November 14, 2017 12:32 PM (EeKHT)

364
Sessions had the chance to label "Black LIves Matters" or at least some segments of it as violent black nationalists but he missed the opportunity..He did not say no, but dodged the question, Remember Dallas, Shootings in NY

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 14, 2017 12:32 PM (5y11N)

365
Again, not his account. His account shows more of a disbelief of reports coming back and a belief that they were better off agreeing. I'm not saying that there wasn't resistance, but Weisel's account isn't of that.

I'm not talking about Elie Wiesel. I'm talking about other documentation of Jewish internments by Nazis and their sympathizers. Some I have talked with face to face. Wiesel's account is his experience, but it wasn't universal. It was his. And I'm not trying to argue that point with you, I'm am just trying to explain why it was hard for some of those people to fight back.

Posted by: moki at November 14, 2017 12:33 PM (V+V48)

366
363 Has anyone on the left used the shitty argument that it took a similar fight to make Barbie black? Cuz if they haven't it's coming.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The calm before the storm at November 14, 2017 12:32 PM (EeKHT)

Are you serious? If I'm a professor, the ONLY reason I don't want my lectures recorded is because I know I'm crossing the line between the logically and academically defensible and indefensible. Because I know I would be forced to provide "context" to statements where there actually was no contextual loss, and I would be driven further into chaos. Recording college courses is a necessary first step in wiping out leftist indoctrination where there should be factual learning. Funny how it's only those otherwise worthless liberal arts courses that need to be hidden from the public view. If it's a public institution it should ALL be public access and public record regardless of what the professors want to keep hidden.

Posted by: MSTisdale at November 14, 2017 12:33 PM (xHVD5)

368Some profs like acolytes, some play devil's advocate, some play the authoritarian, some play the sage on the stage, some play the fool, some like to buddy up with students, some view students as distractions from their research, a few are sociopaths, and some view their job as to cull out the weak and unworthy or the "bad thinkers". You find the same types teaching in your local middle and high schools as well.

I had a different approach. I viewed my job as a travel guide, pointing out features of interest for later study (because that's where students actually learn things), showing the inter-relationships of the various ideas, and providing a verbal outline that subordinated lesser ideas to greater ones (pet peeve: when lecturers present all ideas as equally important, the intellectual equivalent of flat-filing).

But all of that was strictly as an intro, the subliminal message being "But to learn it you have to take this travel guide, go home/to the library and get on top of this stuff."

371Imagine if Roman Catholicism required all women to wear a nun's habit -
I'm certain the left would screech the same defenses as they do to the
moslem burka and hijab. No derision would be poked at it from the left
nor would they claim that the habit crushes the female spirit and sense
of freedom/ equality. The left would celebrate the habit as
"empowering". Right? Posted by: MSTisdale at November 14, 2017 12:25 PM (xHVD5)=====

Uniform for the Army of the 'woke'.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 14, 2017 12:33 PM (MIKMs)

372
356 Someone may have already said this, but in re confiscation of firearms:

Dear Comrade Scharfenberg:

There are over 300 million legally-owned guns in this country, and many billions of rounds of legally-owned ammunition in this country; if we were the problem, you'd fucking well know it.
Posted by: Cowboyneal - the other Jewish carpenter at November 14, 2017 12:31 PM (k2KmM)

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It tells you 2 things about those idiots:
1. That old magazine cover showing a barren expanse stretching from Manhattan to the west coast really is how they see the world.

2. They REALLY haven't thought this through.

Posted by: Jackal at November 14, 2017 12:33 PM (Wpzi3)

373
My dad had to live off smoothies because of a terminal illness to extend his life for a few years and it helped. He served 4 tours in SE Asia. 1st, 5th, and 7th Special Forces. Bronze and Silver Stars.

379
Scharfenberg will join with liberal fascists every time. I met a craftsman, a jeweler, at an NJ craft fair this weekend who was quick to dismiss the rise of anti-Semitism due to Islamic migration and blame everything in the world on Trump and gun trafficking. His parents were Holocaust survivors, but American nationalism is evil, to his mind, muzz nationalism...just a reaction to the west.

Prince Talal, supposedly was the source of a lot of dirty political money. "donating" to CGI and Presidential Libraries etc etc. He's got his fingers in the media as well.

Its an amazing story and its like it doesn't exist. So much stray voltage right now.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2017 12:27 PM (sElJn)

For a time, Al-Waleed was the 2nd biggest owner of Fox News, behind Rupert Murdoch.
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I firmly believe his public holding are nothing compared to the private. I would be flat out shocked if he hasn't made personal "loans" to individuals who own media companies that are financially failing entities, yet seem to continue to operate, zombielike and coincidently are soft on sharia.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2017 12:35 PM (fG9/F)

384
I tried to warn you about Cruz's father. An assassin. Real nasty man. Sad!

Posted by: PDT at November 14, 2017 12:35 PM (YB89a)

385
There is so much material to mock, but yes I am highly amused at Bannon avoiding red meat and drinking Smoothies and generally being in horrible shape."

And this is how we know you're a pussy.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at November 14, 2017 12:35 PM (PtwgA)

386
>>>Guess he was less than a man for having to drink a liquid diet.

390
Or maybe the Boston Globe guy is just an immature idiot that thinks like a child?

The Globe started going downhill with it's cheerleading for busing, then the Kennedy ass kissing, then "all gay, all the time". Now it's jusr a minor league New York Times read only by the true believers. If they have 1/3rd of the suscribers they had 10 years ago, I'd be surprised. I think the last time I bought one was 9/11 for the historical value.

Posted by: tu3031 at November 14, 2017 12:37 PM (O5Q3r)

391
listened to some of the Sessions interrogation I mean testimony and he didn't rule out investigations.. Said he couldn't comment.... I'm no fan of Sessions by the way
Posted by: It's me donna at November 14, 2017 12:35 PM (O2RFr)

exactly. He used the same " I can't comment on whether or not there are ongoing investigations". His stock answer and the stock answer of most AGs

you know.... I kinda like that new U2 song on the radio... "Your the Best Thing ABout Me" .... does that make me a bad person?

Posted by: Serious Cat at November 14, 2017 12:37 PM (Hnqc1)

393
383 I firmly believe his public holding are nothing compared to the private. I would be flat out shocked if he hasn't made personal "loans" to individuals who own media companies that are financially failing entities, yet seem to continue to operate, zombielike and coincidently are soft on sharia.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2017 12:35 PM (fG9/F)

I seem to remember hearing all the way back in the 90s that the Saudis were offering $30,000 cash plus expenses for the hajj to any American soldier during the Gulf operations who would convert to Islam.

So what should he say ? Those women are a bunch of lying sluts.... Which could be possible..

Posted by: It's me donna at November 14, 2017 12:39 PM (O2RFr)

398
"President Trump, please fire this buffoon and let him go back to Alabama"

You think BSG is a government worker? I assumed free-lance buffoon, maybe just bored teenager.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at November 14, 2017 12:39 PM (PtwgA)

399
I read an interesting piece over at Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership that theorized why Jews in general were so compliant to the Nazis.

In general, for hundreds of years the Jewish Diaspora had existed with fairly frequent pogroms and other violence and humiliation. They had adapted by passivity and had managed to survive fairly well. When the Nazis came along there was no comprehension that this was fundamentally different. That the goal was extermination.

The way the Holocaust unfolded the ingrained passivity and hopefulness combined with an inability to comprehend that level of evil combined with folks being generally unarmed and a non militaristic culture sealed their fate. The Warsaw ghetto allowed enough time combined with knowledge and insight into the Nazis for a resistance to develop.

And yet, to this day Jewish progressive culture failed to learn from those terrible lessons about an unarmed populace and and all powerful state.

Posted by: Keith at November 14, 2017 12:39 PM (USf3s)

400
The Shero doll can go right next to my Barack Obama Seal Team 6 action figure.

Posted by: wth at November 14, 2017 12:39 PM (HgMAr)

401
I'm a good 24 hours late with this but regarding the airport screeners failing 80% of the time, remember Tom Daschle's bon mots, "You Can't Professionalize Until You Federalize"?

402
397: He could have said, that he questions why they all came out with these accusations in a herd 40 years after the alleged events? I would have called them lying sluts, but as a woman I can get away with it

Posted by: CN at November 14, 2017 12:40 PM (5gaNQ)

403
The standard for investigative hearings is that the people who know something can't comment because something might or might not be under investigation and the people who comment are making shit up or babbling inanities.

Posted by: RioBravo at November 14, 2017 12:40 PM (5NMZN)

404That old magazine cover showing a barren expanse stretching from Manhattan to the west coast really is how they see the world.

Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

406Sounds reasonable. You're paying for a seat in the class. If you choose not to occupy it, it's your dime. But if you don't occupy it, and you don't find another way of ensuring that you can ace the final, you paid for nada.

Some faculty (usually in the arts) used to agonize over slacking students. Not me. I used to joke, somebody's got to make those lattes - thank you for volunteering. If you can ace this course without attending lecture or doing the reading, I salute you.

My perspective was that the students were adults, and could make their own decisions. I enjoyed teaching, and tried to do a good job, but it was maybe 10% of my job. Running a research group, hustling grant money, publishing, giving seminars, organizing symposia, etc. was my main focus.

Timmy's decided to fart around? Why would I worry? Is he worried that I won't get a grant renewed and will have to fire some postdocs? No. Of course not. He's got his concerns, I've got mine. As long as I'm doing a good job teaching, I figure I've held up my end of the deal vis a vis him.

407
Sessions is not my cup of tea and I am a tad disappointed in him, but Sessions is not the problem. He might be the answer, but he is not the problem

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 14, 2017 12:41 PM (5y11N)

408Imagine if Roman Catholicism required all women to wear a nun's habit - I'm certain the left would screech the same defenses as they do to the moslem burka and hijab.

Just look at the reaction to Christians who suggest it would be best if girls kept their knees together until they marry. There's more outrage and fury against that than hacking a girl's clit off or marrying her at 11.

So what should he say ? Those women are a bunch of lying sluts.... Which could be possible..
Posted by: It's me donna

How about "no comment"?
If he can use that excuse for possible pending investigations that haven't happened yet, he could easily say it in Moore's case.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2017 12:44 PM (TtorR)

418
Just look at the reaction to Christians who suggest it would be best if girls kept their knees together until they marry. There's more outrage and fury against that than hacking a girl's clit off or marrying her at 11.
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Birth control pills, ha.

420
When I don't like or care about the content of a post, what I do? I go somewhere else until a post shows up I am interested in. What I don't do is post over and over again on it about how stupid, lame, or pointless it is.

425
If Bostonians are prepared to confiscate guns, I hope they bring their scuba gear. All mine are at the bottom of a pond someplace. Can't remember where, exactly. I was drunk when my canoe tipped, and it was all I could do to get home.

429
So Roy Moore is in trouble because he liked to date teenagers. How is this not anti-Islam bias and reinforcing of white European cultural supremacy?

If these people are saying it's WRONG to date a 14 year old, isn't this really a thinly veiled attack (no pun intended) on Islam whose prophet married a 7 year old and "consummated" the marriage when she was 9 years old?

Posted by: OCBill at November 14, 2017 12:47 PM (df+Zi)

430
He might not be but lying about what he says or doesn't say isn't the solution either.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 12:44 PM (/tuJf)

???

I'm agreeing with you?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 14, 2017 12:47 PM (5y11N)

431
Just look at the reaction to Christians who suggest it would be best if girls kept their knees together until they marry

435
So Roy Moore is in trouble because he liked to date teenagers. How is this not anti-Islam bias and reinforcing of white European cultural supremacy?

If these people are saying it's WRONG to date a 14 year old, isn't this really a thinly veiled attack (no pun intended) on Islam whose prophet married a 7 year old and "consummated" the marriage when she was 9 years old?
Posted by: OCBill at November 14, 2017 12:47 PM (df+Zi)

France wants to lower the age of consent to 13

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 14, 2017 12:49 PM (5y11N)

436
If these people are saying it's WRONG to date a 14 year old, isn't this really a thinly veiled attack (no pun intended) on Islam whose prophet married a 7 year old and "consummated" the marriage when she was 9 years old?
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Remember the gang of neck beards in England who were passing teenagers around like slaves...

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2017 12:49 PM (D8Ygt)

437
Could I vote for the monkey we had yesterday who looked rather insane but was preferable to the punkish chimpanzee?.

I will be glad when the "Gorilla Pundit" picture makes its reappearance although very glad CBD is filling in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2017 12:49 PM (8+Ozj)

438
I know. I was agreeing with you.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 12:48 PM (/tuJf)

LOL.. going back and forth between patients, Emails, and this can get confusing.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 14, 2017 12:50 PM (5y11N)

439
I am going to need a reference guide to know who is in agreement and which posts are really pointless.

Posted by: RioBravo at November 14, 2017 12:50 PM (5NMZN)

440The Shero doll can go right next to my Barack Obama Seal Team 6 action figure.

456
There once was a former judge running for the US Senate. He fathered a child by a 16-year-old, married a beauty queen he met while judging the pageant. Married another beauty queen 44 years his junior.

He won on a write-in

His name was Strom

Posted by: tmitsss at November 14, 2017 12:55 PM (ZYgGF)

457
From a WaPo article a while back (can't believe they published it)

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y94ux4yn

33K gun deaths per year22K are suicide (mostly male, mostly white, so the elites don't specifically care about them, and the ladies prefer pills apparently)6.6K are gangbangers - I don't care except for innocent bystanders killed,of that 6.6K, Democrat hellhole Chicago alone accounts for about 660 at current run rate1.6K are domestic violence - we got laws for that, enforce them harshlythe rest are accidents (hunting or stupidly screwing around, etc) or unclassified (that may include some that are actually suicides but officials were being charitable to the survivors)

Where is the epidemic again?

Posted by: chuckR at November 14, 2017 12:55 PM (9qifp)

458
Facing low recruitment levels, the U.S. Army quietly lifted its ban on allowing people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military - despite warnings from the industry about the risks involved. -WZ

Just great.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 14, 2017 12:55 PM (r9UYA)

459
Remember the gang of neck beards in England who were passing teenagers around like slaves...--

Rotherham. And it looks like it's still going on.

But look the other way, or go to jail for Islamophobia.

Posted by: shibumi at November 14, 2017 12:55 PM (aT+Bx)

460
450 Oh good. Now asscrack Paul Ryan has opined on what Roy Moore should do, as if any right thinking person was waiting for crapweasel Ryan's input on the direction or purity of the Republican Party.

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But that's 13 in European years. They mature a lot faster than we do.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 14, 2017 12:54 PM (Nwg0u)

Metric system.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 14, 2017 12:56 PM (NWiLs)

465
Maybe we should remind him that we was on the ticket with someone who abused dogs and cheated on his taxes.

AND HE KEPT BINDERS OF WOMEN!!!

Posted by: tu3031 at November 14, 2017 12:57 PM (O5Q3r)

466
458 Facing low recruitment levels, the U.S. Army quietly lifted its ban on allowing people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military - despite warnings from the industry about the risks involved. -WZ

Just great.
Posted by: Under Fire at November 14, 2017 12:55 PM (r9UYA)

I'm certain the left would screech the same defenses as they do to the

moslem burka and hijab. No derision would be poked at it from the left

nor would they claim that the habit crushes the female spirit and sense

of freedom/ equality. The left would celebrate the habit as

"empowering". Right?"

Since the Left usually regards even the most rudimentary rules of modesty for prom dresses or other attire (minimum skirt length, no cleavage, no bare midriffs, etc.) at Catholic or other Christian schools as an intolerable infringement on female empowerment, I'm presuming you're being sarcastic.

He needs to get a document examiner on that so- called yearbook signature. You can date ink. (no pun intended)

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2017 12:57 PM (o/lyw)

470
Just look at the reaction to Christians who suggest it would be best if girls kept their knees together until they marry. There's more outrage and fury against that than hacking a girl's clit off or marrying her at 11.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2017 12:41 PM (39g3+)

Heaven forbid we should be more than our basest urges. Self control is for rubes, man.

475
So basically Hijab Barbie is saying to little Muslim girls that they should all aspire to wearing the Hijab when they grow up. Sounds very progressively feminist, right?

Also, I hate when companies virtue-signal as a fig leaf for making moolah $$$$. There are a billion Muslims on the planet, that = lots of dolls.

Posted by: JoeF. at November 14, 2017 12:59 PM (7uYFy)

476
Facing low recruitment levels, the U.S. Army quietly lifted its ban on allowing people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military - despite warnings from the industry about the risks involved. -WZ

Just great.
Posted by: Under Fire

Raise their pay.

A guy wearing a helmet and protecting this country should get paid as much, if not more, than a guy wearing a helmet protecting a ball and pissing on the flag should.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2017 12:59 PM (TtorR)

477
Heaven forbid we should be more than our basest urges. Self control is for rubes, man.
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After all we're just animals with slightly better brains.

478
473 Apropos of nothing, Young Frankenstein is now on Netflix Streaming, for you youngins who've never seen it, and for you oldies who need a recharge.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 14, 2017 12:57 PM (tbOMB)

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Oooh! It's back? It wasn't gone long. Watching it when I get home from work!

Posted by: Jackal at November 14, 2017 12:59 PM (Wpzi3)

479
472 That Barbie doll looks like it is wearing a fencing outfit. It appears to be holding a fencing helmet.
Posted by: Max Power at November 14, 2017 12:57 PM (QCc6B)

It is explosives.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 14, 2017 12:59 PM (jxbfJ)

482
458 Facing low recruitment levels, the U.S. Army quietly lifted its ban on allowing people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military - despite warnings from the industry about the risks involved. -WZ

Just great.
Posted by: Under Fire at November 14, 2017 12:55 PM (r9UYA)

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pookysgirl had some choice words about that travesty of a decision.

I see 3-4 of these kids in my ED every shift. Cutting, Suicidal ideations, adjustment disorder. First time away from home, drill instructors yelling at them, expectations to perform. It is only going to get worse.

492
U.S. Army quietly lifted its ban on allowing people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military - despite warnings from the industry about the risks involved. -WZ
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On the left, they are fantasizing that he's going to announce his resignation--or at least decline a re-election bid in 2020.
The first one ain't happening and he would never announce the second one because he'd be an instant lame duck.

515
Here's my deal: if you want allegations of misconduct to be considered seriously, do not bring them up five minutes before the election. Bring them up five minutes after the candidate announces.

That is your window for credibility, good bad or indifferent. I refuse to consider the seriousness of the charge after that time. And you might also want to use a conduit other than the media which has shown itself to be eagerly involved in the fabrication of smears on occasions too numerous to count.

Posted by: TexasDan at November 14, 2017 01:06 PM (yL25O)

516
The dems are pretty much just accusing Sessions of being a racist and KKK member...If I were him I'd just get up and walk out.

-
Conyers brings truth.

John Conyers (8, top House D on Judiciary, told me perhaps Sessions (70) was getting "old" - that's wh[y] he's not able to recall details.

535You don't remember the Olympic fencer the media was all thrilled with?Not surprising,she lost and was out in like 5 minutes...

Yeah I don't understand that whole deal. I get the "ooh special identity" but going on afterward? Its one thing to have that annoying "up close and personal" crap during the Olympics before the match but if they get smoked like a pack of Methol Kools in downtown Harlem, move on.

551466 458 Facing low recruitment levels, the U.S. Army quietly lifted its ban on allowing people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military - despite warnings from the industry about the risks involved. -WZ

Just great.
Posted by: Under Fire at November 14, 2017 12:55 PM (r9UYA)

Honest questions:

1. IS there really a recruitment shortfall? Or is the USA simply involved in too many places?

2. Once upon a time, there was "alternative sentencing", on the grounds that certain delinquent young men who were rambunctious and feeling their oats could use a few years of military service. Did that work?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 14, 2017 01:15 PM (jxbfJ)

560
There was an epidemic of guns during the fifties and early sixties. When my older brother was in high school, he and all of his friends had shotguns and rifles. Mass shootings were almost unheard of.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 14, 2017 01:12 PM (+lVUW)

In the 70's, guys drove their trucks to school and parked them in the school lot. They all had gun racks behind the driver and they all had at least one on the rack. Nobody every thought a thing about it.

They still have rifle ranges in the basements of the high schools here. At least the schools that were here then. Some still use them for archery. I don't think they still use the air rifles at the schools, but they do offer rifle team, and I think they practice at a local range.

Wouldn't you rather have your kid know how to handle a gun than be afraid of a gun?

563What Sessions said was essentially that he is well aware of the issue but is not able to comment on the status of investigations or potential investigations. He has this quaint habit of actually following the law.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 12:31 PM (/tuJf)

It is more, and worse, than that. Sessions is an old school Senator and a "southern gentleman" type. And the Demunists have shown that they will arbitrarily change rules any time it suits them. I hate to say it, but Sessions needs to be replaced by someone who knows how to fight back.

You reinstating of waivers to allow those with mental illness issues to join I must say "bravo." For you have now made McNamara's idea of recruiting the functional illiterates for the Army seem brilliant in comparison.

1. IS there really a recruitment shortfall? Or is the USA simply involved in too many places?

2. Once upon a time, there was "alternative sentencing", on the grounds that certain delinquent young men who were rambunctious and feeling their oats could use a few years of military service. Did that work?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 14, 2017 01:13 PM (ujg0T)

Well, since our Armed Forces were drawn down by Fredo, and since we don't really have huge deployments in combat zones today we are not over extended. But we are under trained and maintained.

And each Service has Different Standards and Recruiters have Standards all of their own . LOL

We do not need "Alternative" Sentencing...We don't need society's rejects. Might work for some, but not for most.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 14, 2017 01:17 PM (5y11N)

572439 I am going to need a reference guide to know who is in agreement and which posts are really pointless.
Posted by: RioBravo at November 14, 2017 *
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Personally I never know what to think until I see AlexTheChick's opinion.

576
It is more, and worse, than that. Sessions is an old school Senator and a "southern gentleman" type. And the Demunists have shown that they will arbitrarily change rules any time it suits them. I hate to say it, but Sessions needs to be replaced by someone who knows how to fight back.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 14, 2017 01:16 PM (ujg0T)

We need a war time consigliere

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 14, 2017 01:18 PM (493sH)

577I hate to say it, but Sessions needs to be replaced by someone who knows how to fight back.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 14, 2017 01:16 PM (ujg0T)

I know everyone's feelings here about Trey Gowdy, but just imagine his responses to the likes of Al Franken and Gutierrez.

1. IS there really a recruitment shortfall? Or is the USA simply involved in too many places?

2. Once upon a time, there was "alternative sentencing", on the grounds that certain delinquent young men who were rambunctious and feeling their oats could use a few years of military service. Did that work?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 14, 2017 01:13 PM (ujg0T)

Well, since our Armed Forces were drawn down by Fredo, and since we don't really have huge deployments in combat zones today we are not over extended. But we are under trained and maintained.

And each Service has Different Standards and Recruiters have Standards all of their own . LOL

We do not need "Alternative" Sentencing...We don't need society's rejects. Might work for some, but not for most.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 14, 2017 01:17 PM (5y11N)

Been a long time since we needed cannon fodder.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 14, 2017 01:19 PM (jxbfJ)

581
Breaking: Per an NBC Spokesperson: "We have recently learned that Matt Zimmerman (Senior Vice President, Booking, News & Entertainment) engaged in inappropriate conduct with more than one woman at NBC Universal, which violated company policy. As a result he has been dismissed."

But my computer here can't even look at twitter, or facebook. Not sure how I'm gonna break out of this little shell and find the DOD.....
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 14, 2017 01:18 PM (7UW64)

Use Firefox (or Waterfox)? Check out the addon Hoxx VPN Proxy

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 14, 2017 01:20 PM (jxbfJ)

586576
It is more, and worse, than that. Sessions is an old school Senator and a "southern gentleman" type. And the Demunists have shown that they will arbitrarily change rules any time it suits them. I hate to say it, but Sessions needs to be replaced by someone who knows how to fight back.

You reinstating of waivers to allow those with
mental illness issues to join I must say "bravo." For you have now made
McNamara's idea of recruiting the functional illiterates for the Army
seem brilliant in comparison.

I remember a bunch of guys I graduated HS with enlisted. 1973, the post Vietnam army. Most of them did one tour and got out because of how fucked up things were.

Posted by: tu3031 at November 14, 2017 01:20 PM (O5Q3r)

590529 OK, horde, I need a little help. I've been at work now for just over an hour, and I was done with my day's work by 8:05 a.m.

I have exactly not a damned thing to do the rest of the week.

Lord, I hate this government job.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 14, 2017 01:09 PM (7UW64)

Duolingo and/or "Easy [Name of language here]." Make good use of the time!

591
>>It is more, and worse, than that. Sessions is an old school Senator and a "southern gentleman" type. And the Demunists have shown that they will arbitrarily change rules any time it suits them. I hate to say it, but Sessions needs to be replaced by someone who knows how to fight back.

He is a southern gentleman type but I don't think that is what is driving him. More than anything he is a straight down the middle law and order type who follows the rules and regulations without inserting politics or leaking information.

I get that frustrates some people who would rather have an AG that will be as corrupt as Holder and Lynch on our side but I don't want that. I think we will get to the same destination by doing it the right way and restoring the public trust in government institutions.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 01:20 PM (/tuJf)

592
We have recently learned that Matt Zimmerman (Senior Vice President, Booking, News & Entertainment) engaged in inappropriate conduct with more than one woman at NBC Universal, which violated company policy. As a result he has been dismissed."
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594
2. Once upon a time, there was "alternative sentencing", on the grounds that certain delinquent young men who were rambunctious and feeling their oats could use a few years of military service. Did that work?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 14, 2017 01:13 PM
(ujg0T)

I like Gowdy quite a bit, but he's wasted in congress. All he can do there is talk. He needs to be in a position he can turn that talk into action, where it means more than added lines in the Congressional Record.

Imma get all rude and nasty and loud as hell for the next election that pissant runs in. Sleaza really needs to go the way of the dinosaur. Her daddy was an idiot, and she is exponentially stupider. She has pissed away any and all good will she may have had with the current administration, and since that is her one and only job, she can bite me, and not in a good way.

If Joe Miller cannot get his shit together to beat her like a rented mule, I'm gonna have to find somebody else to shitcan her.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 14, 2017 01:23 PM (7UW64)

607
When someone suggests gun confiscation, I usually invite them personally to do the confiscating.
That usually shuts them up.

I need some help. I have a 7th grade student that likes Anime. A lot. He will not read Robert A. Heinlein or Arthur C. Clarke. And I defiantly want to stay clear of any sexual shenanigans.

I have no idea what to recommend. Not an Anime person. Do you have some recommendations?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2017 *
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If he won't read Heinlein or Clarke, Larry Niven is probably right out, though his early stories and Ringworld have a lot of adventure. I'm no anime buff either, so I'd be as lost as you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 14, 2017 01:23 PM (YWG/U)

609
He is a southern gentleman type but I don't think that is what is driving him. More than anything he is a straight down the middle law and order type who follows the rules and regulations without inserting politics or leaking information.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 01:20 PM (/tuJf)

In other words, Sessions is exactly what James Comey and his defenders claim Comey was.

Posted by: JoeF. at November 14, 2017 01:23 PM (7uYFy)

610I get that frustrates some people who would rather have an AG that will be as corrupt as Holder and Lynch on our side but I don't want that. I think we will get to the same destination by doing it the right way and restoring the public trust in government institutions.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 01:20 PM (/tuJf)

Part of MAGA is restoring respect for the rule of law, to me. Political retribution is not how you get there.

620
>>In other words, Sessions is exactly what James Comey and his defenders claim Comey was.

Maybe. But one of the reasons listed by Rosenstein for firing Comey was his going public with confidential investigations. Sessions just reiterated it during the hearing.

So despite what Comey's defenders claimed it seems Sessions is actually doing it. I'd love to know what is going on behind the scenes and there are hints but whats the point of us constantly banging on the left for being lawless if we are just going to do the same thing?

623
There is some novelist, Monica Byrne, who alleges on Twiter that Melania has been having an affair for years now with someone at Trump Tower..the head of security
Posted by: IC at November 14, 2017 01:25 PM (a0IVu)

And somehow, she's the ONLY person who's heard of it....

Posted by: JoeF. at November 14, 2017 01:27 PM (7uYFy)

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"We have recently learned that Matt Zimmerman (Senior Vice President, Booking, News & Entertainment) engaged in inappropriate conduct with more than one woman at NBC Universal, which violated company policy."

Hard science fiction in manga or anime is a rare thing. 2001 Nights and Crest/Banner of the Stars are the top two but both are old series. James P. Hogan's Twelve Faces of Tomorrow was adapted into manga form about 20 years ago.

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I think more than a small number of gun owners would resist door-to-door gun confiscation attempts by armed and armored thugs--and please don't tell me the men doing these home assaults would be anything other than thugs, just ordinary joes doing their jobs.

Events would escalate quickly, especially after the body count starts rising. What they would get would be civil war.

637There was an epidemic of guns during the fifties and early sixties. When my older brother was in high school, he and all of his friends had shotguns and rifles. Mass shootings were almost unheard of.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 14, 2017 01:12 PM (+lVUW)

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By confiscating guns, the left wishes to save us from the various psychological disorders they have introduced over the past several decades.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 14, 2017 01:31 PM (/qEW2)

638
Tell a lib you think a gun ban would be every bit as effective as when the Feds banned alcohol.

It would be a lot like the Obama years. Lots of "cunning plots" to get guns to be less popular, tricky use of agencies to harm gun dealerships, pissant rules about lead and such to make guns difficult to even use, etc. No outright bans, but plenty of nibbling on the edges and discomfort for gun owners.

Its not impossible that her extremist radical hard left psycho Supreme Court pick (s) would probably end up reversing previous established law and stating that owning a gun is not an individual right, though.

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I will tell the staff at the student paper the best secret of hedge fund management, it is that, no matter whether their clients make money or lose money, the hedge fund managers get the commissions.

There, I just saved you all a crap-load of boring lectures and tuition money.

Thank you.

Posted by: Archer at November 14, 2017 01:34 PM (gbWkA)

646
Elementary school shooting in Corning, CA. Multiple people killed.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 01:34 PM (/tuJf)

647
I would first attempt to hide my guns from confiscation before any armed confrontation. They would only find fake bills of sale for my guns during their search. Discretion the better part of valor.

Which is exactly the objective of the Revolutionary Communist Party. They aren't even being coy about it. It's right there on page one of their web site.

Posted by: navybrat at November 14, 2017 01:34 PM (w7KSn)

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>>I like Gowdy quite a bit, but he's wasted in congress. All he can do there is talk. He needs to be in a position Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2017 01:22 PM (39g3+)

He needs to play the Captain role from "Cool Hand Luke" at TrumpCamp #1A Inprocessing.

"When a man becomes a leftist commie journalist, he types. We gonna break a few fingers for ya, mister quick-typing Journalist Guy, just to slow you down a little bit."

Posted by: Zod at November 14, 2017 01:35 PM (Bdeb0)

650
Maybe Larry Niven's Crashlander then? Niven puts into one book all the Beowulf Shaffer stories plus a new short story and wraps all of them into the framework of a larger story.

Ringworld books will get them introduced to sex for trade business among the various species. Tensile strength of scrith and why in the sequel Bussard ramjets were added. Along with Pak and Tela Brown's luck. Can't forget the Kzinti either, scream and leap boys.

Of course there is Star Trek The Animated Series that came out in the early 1970s, 30 minute episodes.

651610 I get that frustrates some people who would rather have an AG that will be as corrupt as Holder and Lynch on our side but I don't want that. I think we will get to the same destination by doing it the right way and restoring the public trust in government institutions.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 01:20 PM (/tuJf)

Part of MAGA is restoring respect for the rule of law, to me. Political retribution is not how you get there.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 14, 2017 01:23 PM (tbOMB)

I respect that, but like "Under Fire" I have this terrible sense that the Left has turned the Rule Of Law into "Leftist Calvinball" for the last eight years, and I am not seeing that undone.

It would be a lot like the Obama years. Lots of "cunning plots" to
get guns to be less popular, tricky use of agencies to harm gun
dealerships, pissant rules about lead and such to make guns difficult to
even use, etc. No outright bans, but plenty of nibbling on the edges
and discomfort for gun owners.

And she would probably become the second Greatest Gun Salesman of all time.

654
I have no idea what to recommend. Not an Anime person. Do you have some recommendations?

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Not Anime, but Robb White's Deathwatch is available on Kindle. It's an old school boy's adventure novel. Rich, arrogant asshole hires young, idealistic college student to guide him on a dessert hunt. Asshole accidentally kills an o!d prospecter and tries to blame it on the kid. I say it's old school because the asshole strips the kid naked so he'll die of exposure but doesn't butt fvck him. It's about survival in the desert, the difference between right and wrong, between truth and lies. You know, hate speech.

657
At least three people have been killed
and two children wounded in a shooting in asmall community about 15
miles southwest of Red Bluff this morning.The
shooting started shortly after 8 a.m., according to a Tehama County
sheriff's deputy, who confirmed two children have been hospitalized with
gunshot woundsand three people were killed in the shooting.Brian
Flint stood outside the reserve and said he received a call in the
morning that his roommate was injured and that his truck had been stolen
too."The crazy thing is that the neighbor has
been shooting a lot of bullets lately, hundreds of rounds, large
magazines," Flint said. "We made it aware that this guy is crazy and
he's been threatening us.""Multiple shots were
fired in Rancho Tehama, with multiple victims.I am told the suspected
shooter is deceased from law enforcement bullets," the deputy said at
the scene.

659
"You don't remember the Olympic fencer the media was all thrilled with?Not surprising,she lost and was out in like 5 minutes..."
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And while the media kept blathering and blathering about her, they pretty much ignored that kid from Harlem who won a freaking silver medal.

I have some Robb White from my Scholastic Book Service addition phase. Up Periscope was my favorite.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2017 01:40 PM (hyuyC)

665
I would first attempt to hide my guns from confiscation before any armed confrontation. They would only find fake bills of sale for my guns during their search. Discretion the better part of valor.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at November 14, 2017 01:34 PM (Z4z/q)

To each his own. I just follow the logic: If I don't have a thing, I can't use a thing.

The thing that amazes me is the level of delusion that people have regarding the effectiveness and strength of the modern state. I would argue in some ways the modern state is weaker than the Empire the colonists rebelled against 240 years ago. The modern state depends heavily on a complex military and intelligence apparatus that would be heavily compromised if even just 5% of it were to become moles. US infrastructure is in terrible shape, and a few well placed guerilla strikes would cause complete and total chaos and disruption of the power grid, food and gas transportation, and commerce. Thousands upon thousands of miles of bridges and railways which would need to be secured by a military whose combat troops number in the hundreds of thousands.

Then there's the question of credit and financing for some sort of counter-rebellion campaign and the interests of foreign powers. You think China and Russia wouldn't be all over funding revolutionaries under the table while they got busy in eastern Europe and the South China Sea? How many thousands of miles of unguarded coast are there?

Hundreds of millions of guns, a military whose grunt force is largely right-leaning, a massive middle part of the country (the bread basket and massive chunk of land crisscrossed by vulnerable interstate roads, bridges, and railways), and a government that is so inefficient it can't even find time to repair the interstate or seal our southern border let alone our coasts.

The left is, pardon my political incorrectness, doorknob-lickingly retarded if they think an outright revolution would go in their favor.

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>>I respect that, but like "Under Fire" I have this terrible sense that the Left has turned the Rule Of Law into "Leftist Calvinball" for the last eight years, and I am not seeing that undone.

I think it's happening but not as fast as I would like and certainly it isn't being written about it as much in the media. But what Sessions is doing right now is undoing the unlawful practices of the last 8 years by following the law and rules that the DOJ was always bound by pre-Obama.

As for things happening, it really isn't getting much press but the downfall of the Podesta Group, one of if not the biggest Democrat lobbying and power bases in DC is dead and John Podesta is still under investigation. That will do enormous damage to the left going forward.

Fusion GPS has been exposed as a corrupt manufacturer of fake news with ties to the left and to the media. They are also under investigation and for all intents finished even if they don't go to jail which is a real possibility.

And I do believe that in addition to the 27 leak investigations that Sessions mentioned today their are indeed ongoing investigations into Uranium One and lots of things the Clintons and others were doing. It will take time for the details to come out cause Sessions seems to run a tight ship but I can wait.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 01:42 PM (/tuJf)

670
Unusual (and quite possibly wrong) report about the school shooting: Two gunmen.

672When my girls were younger it didn't matter what the dolls wore, naked Barbies everywhere and those damn little shoes hurt when you stepped on them.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 14, 2017 01:44 PM (r+sAi)

673
Let me amend, Crest/Banner of the Stars is more space opera. Starts with a boy named Jinto who sees his homeworld conquered by the Abh. His father was the planet's president and many think what he did was a betrayal because he surrendered instead of sacrificing people in a lost cause. Jinto becomes Abh royalty and is shipped off to school because the Abh believe one must serve. So after completing his schooling Jinto joins the space forces to start life as a supply officer.

And he finally meets an Abh when one of their patrol ships picks him up to ferry Jinto back to the capitol to finish his schooling. Her name is Lafiel who is about his age with flowing waist length blue hair, delicately pointed ears, expressive brown eyes, and is quite sure of herself.

I mean if you don't have ready access to the means to defend yourself, then those means are useless. It's like those guys who keep a gun in their safe or in a locked drawer rather than on their person.

675
Ted Cruz blamed Trump for the ANTIFA/BLM riots in Chicago. Not sure where I put him on my list of authority figures and trusted endorsers.

Posted by: OCBill at November 14, 2017 01:45 PM (df+Zi)

676The thing that amazes me is the level of delusion that people have regarding the effectiveness and strength of the modern state. I would argue in some ways the modern state is weaker than the Empire the colonists rebelled against 240 years ago. The modern state depends heavily on a complex military and intelligence apparatus that would be heavily compromised if even just 5% of it were to become moles. US infrastructure is in terrible shape, and a few well placed guerilla strikes would cause complete and total chaos and disruption of the power grid, food and gas transportation, and commerce. Thousands upon thousands of miles of bridges and railways which would need to be secured by a military whose combat troops number in the hundreds of thousands.

Then there's the question of credit and financing for some sort of counter-rebellion campaign and the interests of foreign powers. You think China and Russia wouldn't be all over funding revolutionaries under the table while they got busy in eastern Europe and the South China Sea? How many thousands of miles of unguarded coast are there?

Hundreds of millions of guns, a military whose grunt force is largely right-leaning, a massive middle part of the country (the bread basket and massive chunk of land crisscrossed by vulnerable interstate roads, bridges, and railways), and a government that is so inefficient it can't even find time to repair the interstate or seal our southern border let alone our coasts.

The left is, pardon my political incorrectness, doorknob-lickingly retarded if they think an outright revolution would go in their favor.
Posted by: The Deplorable Mr. Trumpkin at November 14, 2017 01:42 PM (wwd4n)

Heck, the Left ARE, or wish to be, the very moles, self-styled revolutionaries, and 5th columunists.

678
"James P. Hogan's Twelve Faces of Tomorrow was adapted into manga form about 20 years ago."

Twelve? I remember just two.

Good book -- was the manga worth the time?

Posted by: Rob Crawford at November 14, 2017 01:49 PM (PtwgA)

679I get that frustrates some people who would rather have an AG that will be as corrupt as Holder and Lynch on our side but I don't want that. I think we will get to the same destination by doing it the right way and restoring the public trust in government institutions.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 01:20 PM (/tuJf)

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Sessions has done some good things recently - I'm not ready to condemn him yet. But as to "doing it the right way", I do not think this will restore trust in institutions for leftists, because they think that anything short of complete acquiescence to anything they say is a covert genocidal plot against them, things like applying a law uniformly to all people. At this point I don't care if the AG plays hardball, ignoring certain cases and using the DoJ to push a political agenda. The left are dogs that need obedience training, not reasonable humans that need "fair" treatment.

681
Glenn John - totally agree. Sessions was a mistake, if nothing else than he got rid of a solid vote in the senate. Shoulda been Giuliani or someone else outside the senate.

Posted by: Eli Cash at November 14, 2017 01:49 PM (a+WIL)

682
>>665 I would first attempt to hide my guns from confiscation before any armed confrontation. They would only find fake bills of sale for my guns during their search. Discretion the better part of valor. Posted by: Roc Ingersol at November 14, 2017 01:34 PM (Z4z/q)

Zod would be the political commissar with a pistol screaming at you to gather your manhood, load your weapon, and get into the fight (all while enjoying the REMF perks like vodka, uncensored newspapers, warm showers, and Roy Moore's castoffs).

Posted by: Zod at November 14, 2017 01:50 PM (Bdeb0)

683
Rob it might have been Two, been a very long time since I read it. But if you mean the story about the AI computer and persuading it that is still the story in the manga.

685
I've said this before but claims that the left would fare so poorly if a revolution took place remind me of the confidence of the south during the civil war. Better soldiers, better guns, better morale. They won and won their earliest battles. They lost the war.

Its not the quality of soldiers, its the ability to fight that matters. the cities absolutely control distribution and shipping, internet, just about everything in his nation. Yes, we can grow food in rural areas but how are we gonna get it anywhere but locally?

The military may be made up of mostly rural types but they're taught to obey commands and if you think somehow the soldiers of the military are going to en masse turn against their officers and commander in chief, you don't know how it all works. If you think cops won't do what they're told you don't know how the world works.

When it comes down to keeping my job - and staying out of prison - or doing what I'm told, most people pick that second option and justify it in their heads somehow. If you think a nation trained for generations that dying for anything is stupid and that nothing is worth dying for will somehow step up and fight and die for freedom, you are a fool.

And you would probably see complete and total breakdown of the "rainbow coalition". BLM as black supremacist militants, Antifa devolving into various branches of Communism ala Trotsky vs. Lenin. Most of them would, like the cowards they are, shrink away if shots started getting fired and people stopped thinking the law would protect them.

Cities would collapse into ethnic strife and chaos. Hell, LA is already a bubbling cauldron with the Aztlan types trying to ethnically cleanse the blacks. Now imagine that kind of hostility once the stores started running empty or worse, food stamps stopped being paid out.

690When my girls were younger it didn't matter what the dolls wore, naked Barbies everywhere and those damn little shoes hurt when you stepped on them.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 14, 2017 01:44 PM (r+sAi)

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You should have given them legos instead of dolls.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 14, 2017 01:53 PM (/qEW2)

691
675 Ted Cruz blamed Trump for the ANTIFA/BLM riots in Chicago. Not sure where I put him on my list of authority figures and trusted endorsers.
Posted by: OCBill at November 14, 2017 01:45 PM (df+Zi)

693
Donald Trump may be the greatest thing since George Washington.
Not only did Saudi arrest Talal they are going to pull back the money. Terrorist resources starting to dry up. Slush fund money to uniparty shills, foundations, think tanks and "non profits" start to dry up. . . .

Reuters

Businessmen in detention include international investor Prince Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, whose wealth was estimated by Forbes magazine before the crackdown at $17 billion; Mohammad al-Amoudi at $10.4 billion, with construction, agriculture and energy companies in Sweden, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia; and finance and healthcare magnate Saleh Kamel at $2.3 billion.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2017 01:54 PM (neexo)

694
You should have given them legos instead of dolls.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 14, 2017 01:53 PM (/qEW2)

Those hurt when you step on them too, but they encourage building not clothes-horseyness and toxic femininity

Posted by: Feminasty losers at November 14, 2017 01:55 PM (5gaNQ)

695
>>Sessions has done some good things recently - I'm not ready to condemn him yet. But as to "doing it the right way", I do not think this will restore trust in institutions for leftists, because they think that anything short of complete acquiescence to anything they say is a covert genocidal plot against them, things like applying a law uniformly to all people. At this point I don't care if the AG plays hardball, ignoring certain cases and using the DoJ to push a political agenda. The left are dogs that need obedience training, not reasonable humans that need "fair" treatment.

I'm not really concerned with fair treatment of the left so much as I am concerned with fair treatment for all because I think this is what the majority of the country wants. I don't just want 8 years of law and order I want it returned as the norm for the country going forward because I think if this happens the left won't get power after 8 years.

Sara Carter over at Circa who is probably the best reporter covering what is going on with issues like Uranium One reported last night that there has been an ongoing investigation into Uranium One "all year". I wouldn't assume that just because it's not happening in public view things aren't happening.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2017 01:55 PM (/tuJf)

696
Has anyone tried to renew your driver's license to discover that in 2020 it becomes 'Real ID' and you need a "real, authentic, Birth Certificate, from the County (county, not country) you were born in" to get a Real ID.

I'm trying to find out what it is going to take to get a real authentic Birth Certificate with raised letters and embossed symbols.

Hetalia is a video anime. The characters all represent different countries, and the episodes are about historic events. My kids loved it, and would go research the topics to learn more.
Posted by: Euro at November 14, 2017 01:56 PM (4PP3r)

You better be very careful that you type the right thing into google when you look that one up, NaCly Dog.

706
If you think a nation trained for generations that dying for anything is stupid and that nothing is worth dying for will somehow step up and fight and die for freedom, you are a fool.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2017 01:51 PM (39g3+)

It doesn't take a majority to win. The American Revolution consisted of a minority of hardcore revolutionaries and another minority of steadfast loyalist Tories. The remainder were those who didn't actively take part.

708
>>"Gun Violence" is the Big-Lie of the anti-America Left. Wait for it, the McCain-wing of the GOP (RINOs) will be tacit supporters of gun confiscation if/when Left regains power.
Posted by: DrDean at November 14, 2017 01:57 PM (KiUxL)

Given the number of gun owners and guns in America, it's nothing short of a laudable statistical miracle that there isn't *more* gun violence in the U.S. than there is.

Posted by: Zod at November 14, 2017 01:58 PM (Bdeb0)

709When my girls were younger it didn't matter what the dolls wore,
naked Barbies everywhere and those damn little shoes hurt when you
stepped on them.

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My family used to use the dolls as sacrifices in various historical reenactments. Barbie on fire in the kiddie pool in a vaguely 'Viking' ceremony. I think they gave up trying to get Ken dolls, and everything burned, blown up, or slung in the trebuchet were barbies. Youngest kidlet tells the story of her brother and his friends hanging the dolls on the trees and bushes for Halloween.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 14, 2017 01:58 PM (MIKMs)

710The left is, pardon my political incorrectness, doorknob-lickingly retarded if they think an outright revolution would go in their favor.
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They look at the French revolution and the Communist revolutions in Russia, China and Cuba and like their odds. They are of course stupid.

Posted by: simplemind at November 14, 2017 01:59 PM (bBk0z)

711
TokyoPop before they folded printed translated novels for Crest/Banner of the Stars and manga. Either might be a bit too jarring since the author Morioka Hiroyuki created a language [Baronh] for the Abh and these made up words are constantly used as for example in reference to rank, both military and royal.

712
Tehama school shooter had been shooting hundreds of rounds at home and threatening neighbors, acting "crazy". Carjacked car, killed car owner, went to school and shot through windows. Killed by police.

713
I watched a recent vid of a talk Camille Paglia gave in Seattle, where she derided the notion of "toxic masculinity" by saying, basically, look girls, if civilization breaks down you'll all being looking for some toxic masculinity to protect you. Do you really think you're going to head out there to brave a mob?

I'm convinced the only reason she doesn't get shouted down like Milo or Shapiro is because she has that "I was for Bernie, voted for Jill Stein" mantra going and it protects her. I'm starting to doubt it's true, though. She ripped into the overgrown government bureaucracy and defended capitalism. And she's too smart not to know that those are the last things Sanders and Stein stand for.

714
81 Gah, even Sessions is saying 'no reason to doubt the women' wrt Moore. So, what happens? Does the seat go to the Democrat even if Moore wins? He can't pull out of the race now, can he?
Posted by: IC

The presumption of innocence is the imperative to doubt them. If he's said no special counsel for Hillary then someone needs to fire him. He's pissing me off.

"Hey Jeff, is there any reason to doubt all the people who claim you lied under oath? What's the difference?"

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at November 14, 2017 02:00 PM (kfcYC)

715
472 That Barbie doll looks like it is wearing a fencing outfit. It appears to be holding a fencing helmet.

The person the Barbie is modeled on is a fencer. If she's who I think she is, I saw her fence in the last winter Olympics and wasn't impressed; I though her sportsmanship was lacking.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 14, 2017 02:00 PM (v3pYe)

716
>>My family used to use the dolls as sacrifices in various historical reenactments. Barbie on fire in the kiddie pool in a vaguely 'Viking' ceremony. I think they gave up trying to get Ken dolls, and everything burned, blown up, or slung in the trebuchet were barbies. Posted by: mustbequantum at November 14, 2017 01:58 PM (MIKMs)

You will ensure that Zod's Periodicals Department/Newsletters receives your newsletter.

Posted by: Zod at November 14, 2017 02:01 PM (Bdeb0)

717
Drudge links the AP describing DJT's fantastic Asian trip and the authors conclude, tisk-tisking all the while, that it was a dismal failure.

720
718 Another good announcement would be the termination of Sessions at DOJ. He really needs a kick out the door.

I'm thinking along those same lines.

Trade deals w/China have already been announced. This sounds like something else to me.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 14, 2017 02:02 PM (ul9CR)

721
>>And she's too smart not to know that those are the last things Sanders and Stein stand for.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at November 14, 2017 02:00 PM (ZM2xo)

True, and I agree with your post, but her refusal to omit the "...in *my* generation, we didn't care about..." self-congratulation. It's present in every article she's written, and over the years it's becoming an annoying literary tic of hers.

Posted by: Zod at November 14, 2017 02:03 PM (Bdeb0)

722
On Hetalia, we have the DVDs. Called Axis Powers. Don't know what might be naughty about that if you look it up.

Posted by: Euro at November 14, 2017 02:03 PM (4PP3r)

723
"Another good announcement would be the termination of Sessions at DOJ. He really needs a kick out the door."

725
Honestly, I don't get gun grabbers. Without an airtight border, you can confiscate every fucking gun and the next day they'll be a million illegal guns available.
What fucking reality do these assholes live in? Once you make something illegal, you instantly create a black market.

Posted by: Very Undude at November 14, 2017 02:03 PM (2X7pN)

726
Wow, this thread is still going. This is my payback for complaining about that rubber room chimp pic, ain't it?

In order to get food and resources into cities, the railway card and trucks still have to travel on the interstate and railway systems. Cities are powered by power plants, lines, and substations. Police aren't military (yet). I don't think beat cops will be doing their jobs with any regularity in the hypothetical we're supposing (revolution/ at least partial breakdown of order).

I get your point about the military, perhaps I was being too charitable. Even assuming a minute number of them misbehave in any way, it takes a large psychological/morale toll to fire on your fellow citizens. And a few hundred thousand soldiers to police a nation-state where a good chunk of the population is rebelling? Seems a fat chance they'd be successful.

Again, I'm assuming in this hypothetical that a solid chunk of people, 30% are outright trying to bring about some kind of revolution.

Regarding the South- I think they may have won had they refrained from attacking at all. Their adventures in the north leading to Gettysburg were a mistake.

734
Regarding the South- I think they may have won had they refrained from attacking at all. Their adventures in the north leading to Gettysburg were a mistake.
Posted by: The Deplorable Mr. Trumpkin at November 14, 2017 02:05 PM (wwd4n)

736
What fucking reality do these assholes live in? Once you make something illegal, you instantly create a black market
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They live in an imaginary world where governmental laws act as powerfully as say, the law of gravity.

Notice that the fact that crime itself is illegal and yet, still happens, is completely lost on them. In other words, you are dealing with people who actually should be institutionalized.

Okay I understand. That said I will be the one that chooses the time and place of any confrontation if the theoretical confiscation attempts occur. As an aside , my hiding places are accessible to me and not easily discoverable, unless they think I am a gun dealer and tear my place upside down. And even then.

744In order to get food and resources into cities, the railway card and trucks still have to travel on the interstate and railway systems.

Sure... to get food from the rural areas of the USA. But they can import food from elsewhere in the docks and railyards and airports they control all day long. How's that gonna work out for Scio, Oregon?

Control the infrastructure = control the nation. Until someone figures out how to march an army without worrying about their stomach, that's never going to change.

748
>>Control the infrastructure = control the nation. Until someone figures out how to march an army without worrying about their stomach, that's never going to change. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2017 02:08 PM (39g3+)

We are not interested in your newsletter.

Posted by: The Afghan mujahideen, since about 1842 at November 14, 2017 02:11 PM (Bdeb0)

750
Remember, the south was largely rural and largely food-producing. They were starved out. How on earth could this happen? The north blockaded the ports. Fields are easy to burn and destroy. Ports are a lot harder to take over. You have to conquer a city and control the airspace and waterways. Easy to do if you control the military and the city already. Not so easy for a rebellion to do.

Rebellions almost always fail without outside assistance. If they're left totally local and internal, they almost always fall apart.

753
So now Paul Ryan is calling for Roy Moore to drop out? Based on rehashed CNN reporting on incidents that allegedly occurred forty years ago?

Good grief. A pile-on from all of the usual suspects. My favorite is the Alabama Secretary of State threatening to not certify the election if Moore wins. Yet the senior senator from SC falls all over himself as a character witness for Menendez. The Establishment is going batsh*t crazy.

755
True, and I agree with your post, but her refusal to omit the "...in *my* generation, we didn't care about..." self-congratulation. It's present in every article she's written, and over the years it's becoming an annoying literary tic of hers.

Posted by: Zod at November 14, 2017 02:03 PM (Bdeb0)

Agreed. She refuses to believe that her wonderful "60's generation" created many of the problems she now decries.

756
752
The only way a gun confiscation would occur is if they repealed the 2nd Amendment. That aint happening in my lifetime.================================

All it takes is a few Supreme Court justices, and they'll find all sorts of lawyerly ways to do it. No gun inheritance. Ammo registration. No sales, except through government run stores (or, more probably, "store", conveniently open for ten minutes every fourth Sunday night). There are hundreds of ways short of confiscation.

760
I did my time in uniform as a line officer, and now sit as a judge. I see lots of guys every day who would probably make good soldiers, but have had a bust or two for weed, DUI, etc. that precludes their enlisting. I'd take them over pajama boy or some other pencil-necked dweeb any day.

The "cutters" and mentally ill are too much, though. Those guys need meds, and a combat zone is not the place to be wandering around asking, "Anyone see my atavin? I left it in my shaving kit, I think."

Posted by: Exuberantly Touched at November 14, 2017 02:18 PM (Jw2qQ)

761
I have some Robb White from my Scholastic Book Service addition phase. Up Periscope was my favorite.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2017 01:40 PM (hyuyC)

OMG! My favorite growing up also. My Dad's liberal girlfriend said last weekend that anime is terrible for young minds. In my own observations, it seems to attract shaky self-esteem types that use the anime to retreat further into fantasy worlds.

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Respectfully I submit that there would be more than just a few dead Gun owners. And I don't think that many cops would go along with it, considering one of the main reasons we own guns via the second amendment is to balance the power of government and the people it would mean to govern. Civil war 2.0. Wouldn't last long either.

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Late in thread, but she's not a professor. She's an "Executive in Residence" with the title "Lecturing Fellow". That is, she's some business executive type (MBA) they brought in a fee-per-course basis to tell the undergrads what life is like in the "real world" of business. Undergrads at elite schools seem to like this.